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Saturday, May 16, 2026
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Topic: Tollywood

Bengali film industry is switching sides after BJP’s win. New scripts on Hindu causes

From Parambrata Chattopadhay to Dev Adhikari, most of the film actors, who aligned with the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC till 4 May, are publicly distancing themselves from the party.

From Binodini to Mitin—Bengali cinema scripting its comeback this Christmas

As Park Street now anticipates the Christmas lights, Bangla cinema eyes a harmony. Colliding heritage, devotion and some detective grit, the year-ender comes with a rediscovery.

‘Andhra-wala’, ‘pack your bags’: Allu Arjun row reignites Andhra-vs-Telangana sentiments after 10 years

Congress MLA calls Allu Arjun 'Andhra-Wala', warns him to 'behave', while former Osmania University professor calls for Telugu film industry to relocate to Vishakhapatnam.

After a long slump, Bangla film industry has a box office hit with Bohurupi

Shiboprosad Mukherjee’s Bohurupi has grossed over Rs 13 crore since its 8 October release, making it the year’s biggest Bangla hit and one of the top 5 highest-grossing Bengali films ever.

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.

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Govt should respect the autonomy of higher education institutes: GD Parikh

With time, growing numbers and the resultant overcrowding in institutions, or issues like that of the medium of instruction, may be expected, wrote GD Parikh in 1953.

Petrol, diesel prices hiked by Rs 3 per litre as Centre moves to ease OMC losses

The hike comes amid soaring global energy costs, with government citing mounting under-recoveries and fiscal pressure on state-run oil firms

Drones no longer enablers, they’re replacing manned aircraft roles—CISC Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit

Speaking at IAF think-tank seminar, Air Marshal Dixit was backed by Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh, who said unmanned aerial systems are no longer just the eyes in the sky but ‘claws in the sky’.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.