Wabi-Sabi Exploring Himalayas With Antony Varghese: Actor’s Travel Vlog Features Himalayan Village and Its People

If finding beauty in imperfection is the secret behind happy and peaceful life, then the people of Kalga village personify the best of the dictum, says Malayalam actor Antony Varghese, who recently released a travel vlog on YouTube along with his friends on May 13 based on their recent expedition to Kalga in Himachal Pradesh.

Churuli Review: Lijo Jose Pellissery Leads Viewers Down a Path to Nowhere 

Not very long after the premiere of Jallikattu, Lijo made his next film, Churuli which is set in a similar milieu ﹣a remote forest village full of men with a talent for violence.The film opens with a woman’s voice-over narrating to a young man (or a boy) the story of a brahmin who, while looking for a mischievous minion named perumaadan, got trapped in an unending spiral inside a forest.

Actor Rajinikanth Summoned Over Thoothukudi Anti-Sterlite Protest Remarks

Rajinikanth has been summoned by the Justice Aruna Jegadeesan Commission to give a deposition on 19 January 2021 in the case of the Thoothukudi police firing during the 2018 anti-Sterlite protests in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, reported ANI on Monday.
The actor had said that “anti-social elements” were involved in the firing, which resulted in the death of 13 persons.
In May 2018, protests against the copper branch of Vedanta Limited, Sterlite Copper, erupted in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, because of concerns over the environmental damage caused by the plant and its expansion. During the protest, the police in Thoothukudi opened fire and killed 13 people. The police subsequently said that they had fired because the Collector’s office was under threat from protestors.

Oscars: A Look at India’s Official Entries Over the Past Decade

Since 1957, Hindi films have dominated the entries with 32 entries so far, followed by eight in Tamil, three each in Malayalam and Marathi, two in Bengali and one each in Telugu, Gujarati, Urdu, and Assamese.  However, in the last 10 years, six regional films, barring ones in Hindi, have been sent as India’s official entries at the Academy Awards.

Tamil Cinema And The Ridicule of Butlers

By having the hero polish this man’s shoes and clean up his vomit, the screenplay makes the heroine too feel sympathy towards him. (The screenplay invokes a particular emotion towards the hero. ) We must therefore conclude that the story and life of a butler serves as a mere backdrop for a love story, and never go further.

It Will Be A Prequel To The First Part, Where You’ll See Chulbul Pandey’s Story: Salman Khan On ‘Dabangg 3’

Last evening, the team of Dabangg 3 starring Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, and Saiee Manjrekar were present at a popular hotel in Chennai for a press meet with Tamil media channels. Salman Khan, Saiee Manjrekar, Kiccha Sudeep along with TN distributor Kotapadi J Rajesh and director Prabhu Deva arrived to promote the film.

IFFI Celebrates Golden Jubilee This Year; International Jury To Be Headed By Ex-Oscar Academy President John Bailey

International Film Festival Of India (IFFI), the Central government-backed annual event held in Panaji, is gearing up to celebrate its golden jubilee this year. The festival, which will be held from November 20 till 28, will screen close to 250 films from different countries. This year, Russia is the festival’s partner country.

Indie Filmmakers To Approach Court Against International Film Festival Of Kerala

A group of indie filmmakers has launched a social media campaign against the International Film Festival Of Kerala (IFFK), alleging that the festival’s film selection committee has been flouting rules and rejecting films without viewing them. On Facebook page, Reform The IFFK, the filmmakers say that they were going to file e legal petition against the film festival to get the current selection lists of Indian and Malayalam films cancelled. They demand that the Academy to reconstitute the panels and make fresh and fair selections. The filmmakers also allege that the Chalachitra Academy was favouring commercial films over independent arthouse films.