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Article 370 restoration demand triggers ruckus in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly again | Kashmir: Two village guards kidnapped and killed by terrorists in Kishtwar | Salman Khan gets fresh threat over a song naming Lawrence Bishnoi | Supreme Court refuses to transfer RG Kar case trial outside Bengal | India cancels consular camps in Toronto citing security issues days after Hindu temple attack | S Jaishankar meets Australian PM Anthony Albanese in Canberra, discusses bilateral partnership | India slams Canada for blocking Australian outlet that interviewed Jaishankar, says it highlights Ottawa's 'hypocrisy' | After Salman, now Shah Rukh Khan receives death threat, case filed | Sexual harassment case can't be cancelled over compromise between accused and complainant: Supreme Court | Australia plans to ban social media for children under 16

Renowned ghazal singer Bhupinder Singh passes away at 82

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

Mumbai/IBNS: Acclaimed singer Bhupinder Singh breathed his last at 7:45 pm on Monday in Mumbai's Andheri Hospital. He was 82.

Teaser of Mani Ratnam's epic drama Ponniyin Selvan starring Vikram, Aishwarya released. Check out

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

Mumbai/IBNS: The teaser of Mani Ratnam's much-awaited magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan released Friday leaving fans awestruck.

Actor-TMC MP Nusrat Jahan on Kaali poster row: I don't believe in hurting religious sentiments

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Bengali actor-MP Nusrat Jahan Monday said she believes creativity should not be mixed with religion while responding to the row stirred by a film poster featuring goddess Kali smoking a cigarette.

Kaali poster controversy: Want to be a fearless voice, says filmmaker Leena

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

New Delhi/UNI: Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai has stoked a controversy, after she shared a poster of her documentary film ‘Kaali’, wherein the Goddess is seen smoking.

'A Holy Conspiracy' starring Naseeruddin Shah, Soumitra Chattopadhyay to hit theatres on July 29

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

After receiving accolades in various prestigious film festivals, 'A Holy Conspiracy' is now all set to release in theatres. Directed by Saibal Mitra, the trailer of the movie was launched on the film's official Facebook page Friday.

Pune: Five-day film festival celebrates artist, stories from Kashmir

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

Pune: A five-day film festival dedicated to artists and stories from Jammu and Kashmir was recently held in Pune city.

Boria Majumdar's book on IPL's first chairman Lalit Modi on big screens soon

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Cricket historian and author Boria Majumdar's book on cash rich T20 tournament Indian Premier League (IPL)'s first chairman Lalit Modi, Maverick Commissioner: The IPL Lalit Modi Saga, will soon be made into a film.

'Nobody believed me...': Kamal Haasan after massive success of 'Vikram'

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

Chennai/IBNS: As south films are creating massive records at the box-office throughout India as well as worldwide, veteran actor Kamal Haasan has opened up about how nobody believed him when he said he could earn Rs. 300 crores in a snap with the release of the action thriller 'Vikram'.

Pride month: List of LGBTQ films from India and Asia that win big at KASHISH 2022

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

Mumbai/IBNS: In the Pride Month, the Indian and Asian filmmakers with LGBTQ themes have ample reasons to celebrate. They have just won big in South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ+ film festival KASHISH 2022 held in Mumbai.

Samantha Ruth Prabhu scorches social media with her latest picture, colleagues shower love for her

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

Not just acting, Indian actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu is hitting the headlines with her fitness goals and sultry pictures online and her new Instagram post is a classic example.

Cannes award for All That Breathes is something, but I am cautiously optimistic: Shaunak Sen

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

After winning at the Sundance film festival, Shaunak Sen’s documentary ‘All That Breathes’  won the top documentary honour at the Cannes film festival this year. With the film slated for release on HBO this fall, Sujoy Dhar catches up with the Delhi-based filmmaker to know what inspired him to make a film on two Muslim brothers on a mission to rescue the kites that fall out of the grey, monotone skies of the severely polluted national capital region

'That is new India': R Madhavan praises PM Modi at 75th Cannes Film Festival

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:09 am

New Delhi/IBNS: Actor R Madhavan, who is at the 75th Cannes Film Festival with a team representing India, on Thursday hailed the success of the 'micro-economy' in the country under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Mahesh Babu comes out with clarification for his 'Bollywood can't afford me' statement

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Indian actor and Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu has come out with a clarification for a statement where he claimed the Hindi film industry, popularly known as Bollywood, can't afford him.

KGF: Chapter 2 actor Mohan Juneja dies

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Mumbai: KGF: Chapter 2 actor Mohan Juneja died on Saturday.

Decoding Satyajit Ray: Ranjit Mallick, Mamata Shankar, Barun Chanda look back on legend's 101st birth anniversary

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Veteran Bengali actor Ranjit Mallick, who had worked with late filmmaker Mrinal Sen at a very young age in Interview, had his luck to attract a role of a disillusioned Communist in late Satyajit Ray's 1990 film Shakha Proshakha.

Madhuja Mukherjee's Deep 6 screened at 27th KIFF offers a distinct perspective on life and death

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Deep 6 is the first full-length feature film directed by Madhuja Mukherjee who, despite her young years, wears many hats. She is a filmmaker, a prize-winning author, a known researcher and Professor of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Aparna Sen's The Rapist gets screened at 27th KIFF, Konkona Sen Sharma calls it 'proud moment'

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Veteran actress-filmmaker Aparna Sen's The Rapist, which explores the reasons behind a man becoming a sexual predator, was screened at the 27th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) on its closing day Sunday.

Tech use should not compromise discipline of filmmaking: Goutam Ghose

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Though technology has brought a sea-change in filmmaking over the last few years, especially the pandemic, Indian director Goutam Ghose feels the discipline of filmmaking should never be compromised.

KIFF pays tribute to Sumitra Bhave through her last film Dithee

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Multiple award-winning director Sumitra Bhave, who passed away last year, is being bestowed a tribute at the ongoing Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) with a screening of Dithee, her last film in Marathi,  which happens to be the first feature film she happened to direct independently without her co-director Sunil Sukhtankar beside her. 

KIFF screens documentary on Badal Sarkar by Ashoke Viswanathan

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Nandan 3 auditorium was packed on an evening of documentary films chosen for screening at the 27th KIFF. Among the three films, one, Badal Sarkar and Third Theatre, drew a big audience.

Aparna Sen's new film The Rapist explores why a man becomes a sexual predator

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Aparna Sen's latest film THE RAPIST is being screened in Kolkata as the last film at the 27th KIFF 2022 on May 1. Shoma A. Chatterji offers a ring-side view of the film from the director

Mohan Agashe to produce late Sumitra Bhave's last work on 'elderly singles'

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Psychiatrist-actor Dr. Mohan Agashe has revealed he will be producing late filmmaker Sumitra Bhave's unfinished work which deals with "elderly singles".

Women hardly have option to come out of a toxic marriage: June Maliah discussing her short film Blotting Paper

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Bengali actress-MLA June Maliah has shared how women are left with no options to come out of a toxic marriage even after suffering marital rapes while discussing her latest short film Blotting Paper, which is premiered at the 27th Kolkata International Film Festival.

Veteran filmmaker T Rama Rao passes away at 83

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Chennai/IBNS: Veteran filmmaker T. Rama Rao, who directed 70 Hindi and Telugu feature films between 1966 and 2000, passed away in Chennai on Wednesday. He was 83.

'The Kashmir Files' set to release in Israel, Consul General unveils poster

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

After taking India by storm, "The Kashmir Files" will be released in Israel on April 28.

Samantha, Nayanthara dance alongside Vijay Sethupathi in Dippam Dappam song from Kaathu Vaakula Rendu Kadhal

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

The Dippam Dappam song, presumably a funny one, from the upcoming Indian Telugu language romantic film Kaathu Vaakula Rendu Kadhal will be released soon by the makers.

Visual communicator Bijoy Chowdhury's My Son and his Grandfather capturing the solitude of his father wins hearts

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

This is the dispassionately poignant story of a very ordinary grandfather of a lower-middle class family in a suburban town in West Bengal where the old man copes with solitude in the absence of his grandson sent to a boarding school.

Falak Tu Garaj Tu: KGF: Chapter 2 countdown gathers steam with the second song release

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Bengaluru/IBNS: Hombale Films on Wednesday released the second song Falak Tu Garaj Tu from its upcoming project KGF: Chapter 2.

SS Rajamouli's RRR hits big screens today

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Hyderabad/UNI: The Telugu epic drama RRR was finally released on Friday.

Shruti Haasan tests COVID-19 positive

Sep 16, 2024, at 12:10 am

Mumbai: Actress Shruti Haasan, who is the daughter of veteran southern actor Kamal Haasan, on Sunday confirmed she has tested COVID-19 positive.