Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: The world of George Lucas!

Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: The world of George Lucas!

A significant figure of the 20th century New Hollywood movement, George Lucas is regarded as a pioneer of the modern blockbuster. | Photo Credit: Getty images Q: George Lucas originally had his sights set on the U.S. military but was rejected by the U.S Army for having diabetes. His dream of joining the Air Force […]

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Play on poet Sylvia Plath trains the spotlight on clinical depression

Play on poet Sylvia Plath trains the spotlight on clinical depression

The cast of Sylvia | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Athira Nikathil’s play Sylvia opens with the young Sylvia Plath meeting Ted Hughes, whom she would later marry. What follows is an intense life story of the American poet that rises and dips like a poem. Athira attempts to bring to life the person and poet […]

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Mumbai-based artist Rekha Vyas weaves magic through hand shadows and narrates tales through puppets

Mumbai-based artist Rekha Vyas weaves magic through hand shadows and narrates tales through puppets

A shadow puppetry show on Ramayana being performed by Mumbai-based artist Rekha Vyas organised by GEMS, recently held in Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: V Raju As the lights went off, the small white screen on stage came alive with floating forms of animals in their habitat, humans and scenes from daily life. Mumbai-based hand shadowgraphy […]

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Adah Sharma to play cop in Shreyas Talpade’s ‘The Game of Girgit’

Adah Sharma to play cop in Shreyas Talpade’s ‘The Game of Girgit’

Adah Sharma | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Actor Adah Sharma has boarded the cast of the Shreyas Talpade-starrer “The Game of Girgit”, the makers announced Thursday. The upcoming thriller is produced by Gandhar Films and Studio Pvt Ltd, and directed by Vishal Pandya of “Hate Story 2” fame. According to the makers, “The Game of […]

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‘Good Omens’ season 2 premiers on Amazon Prime Video on July 28

‘Good Omens’ season 2 premiers on Amazon Prime Video on July 28

A poster of ‘Good Omens’ season 2 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The second season of the fantasy comedy series Good Omens is set to premier on Amazon Prime Video on July 28. The series, written by Neil Gaiman, is based on Terry Patchett’s novel of the same name. And on the 10th of May, […]

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Hansal Mehta’s web series ‘Scoop’ to release on June 2

Hansal Mehta’s web series ‘Scoop’ to release on June 2

Karishma Tanna in ‘Scoop’ Director Hansal Mehta’s series “Scoop” will premiere on June 2, streaming platform Netflix announced Thursday. Inspired by Jigna Vora’s biographical book “Behind the Bars In Byculla: My Days in Prison”, the show is co-created by Mehta and Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul (writer of “Thappad”). Karishma Tanna, best known for soap opera “Kyunki […]

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Documenting iconic Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma journey and works

Documenting iconic Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma journey and works

The Shaping of an Artist is the first of a six volume series, An Everlasting Imprint, on the legacy of Raja Ravi Varma, India’s foremost modern artist. Ganesh V Shivaswamy has appropriately released his book in the year of the artist’s 175th birth anniversary. How did Ganesh, a practising lawyer, become an authority on an […]

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Shertalai Renganatha Sharma offered a boquet of rare compositions by Muthuswami Dikshitar

Shertalai Renganatha Sharma offered a boquet of rare compositions by Muthuswami Dikshitar

Shertalai Renganatha Sharma with B.U. Ganesh Prasad (violin), and Shertalai R. Anantakrishnan (mridangam) at the Veenavadhini Dikshitar utsavam held on April 29, 2023, at Arkay Convention Center, Mylapore. | Photo Credit: SRINATH M Shertallay K.N. Renganatha Sharma distinguished himself by adhering a traditional format during his performance at the annual Dikshitar Utsavam, hosted by the […]

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