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Topic: Kantara

Kantara to Homebound, Bollywood no match for India’s new wave cinema

This is the new, multilingual Bollywood, and its main offering is fresh stories, set in new cinematic universes. The old industry is surviving on nostalgia.

Ranveer Singh apologises for mimicking Rishab Shetty. ‘I have respected every culture’

The Hindu Janajagruti Samiti submitted a memorandum at the Panaji police station, seeking the registration of a complaint under the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita.

Kantara, Dashavatar to Lokah—how tribal representation in films is changing

Lokah reimagined the tale of the yakshi while Marathi film Dashavatar blended myth and reality to spotlight a community's vulnerable existence in the Konkan region.

‘Kantara’ producers file petition against Karnataka govt’s price cap on movie tickets

The order comes at a time when the Kannada film industry is on the cusp of major releases. Rishab Shetty’s ‘Kantara: Chapter 1’ is set to release on 2 October.

Tuluva people aren’t devil worshippers. That’s just a colonial perspective of Kola rituals

In 'Daiva: Discovering the Extraordinary World of Spirit Worship', K Hari Kumar, brings you stories of powerful immortals along with details of their worship through mystifying rituals.

If there is one movie you cannot miss this year, it’s Kannada film Kantara

The film directed by Rishab Shetty is a satiating blend of folklore and masala.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.