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Monday, November 4, 2024
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Topic: Tollywood

Bengal’s shape-shifters are banking on Bohurupi. ‘Give us a stage, we’ll enthrall a city’

Kolkata: Nanichora Das Baul becomes someone new every day—Shiva or Parvati, Durga or the demon king, even a skeleton sometimes. As one of Bengal’s few remaining bohurupis—quick-change artists who...

Hema Committee report took 5 yrs to come out. Telugu film industry’s version still under wraps

Telugu film industry looked poised for MeToo moment in 2018-19 as a govt committee began looking into sexual exploitation of women. Final report, submitted in 2022, is collecting dust.

Anurag Kashyap is wrong, Bengali cinema isn’t ‘ghatiya’. But dubbed Pushpa, KGF are winning

Kashyap’s comment that Bengali cinema has become ‘ghatiya’ has triggered rage and self-loathing. But the real problem is that Tollywood has been reduced to a cottage industry.

Bengali films avoid Hindu themes. But Subhrajit Mitra’s Devi Chowdhurani set to change that

Dhanurveda to East India Company records—Subhrajit Mitra has done extensive research to recreate Bengal’s Sannyasi Rebellion of 1770 through his film.

SVF is West Bengal’s own YRF. But this Tollywood kingmaker began with a rejection

Begun by two cousins in the 1990s, SVF has its fingers in many pies from film and TV to OTT platform Hoichoi. It has also constructed almost 20 theatres across West Bengal.

Gadar, Pokiri, DDLJ — old hit movies back in theatres. Nostalgia trumps new releases

Chennai saw seven new releases this week but the movie that was running housefull was Kamal Hassan’s 2007 cop drama, Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu.

Prakash Raj is the powerhouse performer of Vamsi’s ‘Ranga Marthanda’

It is heartening to see a performer of Raj’s stature exercise his acting muscle and a film that celebrates his versatility.

Veteran Telegu actor Krishna, father of Mahesh Babu, passes away, industry mourns

The 80-year-old died in hospital, where he was seeking treatment following a cardiac arrest. Krishna was admitted to the hospital on Monday and was put on ventilator.

Yashoda is a Samantha Ruth Prabhu show and there is no taking away from it

From being sweet and mischievous in the first half to battling a scheming villain in the second half, Prabhu switches gears without glitches.

Dark, disturbing, daring—Amazon Prime’s ‘Ammu’ is not a preachy take on domestic violence

Aishwarya Lekshmi’s Ammu joins Taapsee Pannu’s Thappad and Alia Bhatt’s Darlings to show how women ultimately save themselves from bad marriages.

On Camera

Kashmiri jihadists more resilient than we think. Rebuilding J&K Police is key to counter them

The new jihadists in J&K have harried Indian forces, staged a series of ambushes, and now begun to target Indian civilian infrastructure projects.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.