From the pinnacle of <em>Veer Zara</em>'s teary romance, the transition to <em>Pathaan</em> and <em>Jawan</em> must have entailed a lot of resetting, rewiring, and recalibration in the mind.But SRK has done it. And done it well, notes Sandeep Goyal.

There's been so much interesting content on OTT. Subhash K Jha picks his Best Original Feature Films on digital platforms.

'As I watched Mammootty 'try out' Mathew Devassy, I could hear from my theatre seat the ready-made appreciation of the liberal press, their applause for the great actor having flirted with queerness on screen.''But it is a flirtation and nothing more, for I could not detect in Devassy any hint of love, not for his homosexual lover, not for his wife,,' observes Sreehari Nair.

As Yesudas turns 84 on January 10, Subhash K Jha salutes the legend.

This isn't a hatchet job, and my excuse for the exercise is my feeling that when you invert some of the clich&eacute;s mentioned here, you might just arrive at the portals of genuine movie-making energy, says Sreehari Nair.

While the country is gripped by Ram Mandir frenzy, Danish Husain -- without shouting from the rooftops -- silently staged his opinion with this play on one of India's best-known poets, observes Neeta Kolhatkar.

If you have never seen Sriram Raghavan fly, you would hardly realise that this time, he is happy in his cage, this time he isn't reaching for the skies, notes Sreehari Nair.

Since nothing irritates Lijo Jose Pellissery more than a throwaway critical judgment, Sreehari Nair carefully presents his opinions about Malaikottai Vaaliban, a good two weeks after he first saw the movie.

Girish AD doesn't make romantic comedies so much as he elevates the genre, observes Sreehari Nair.

What follows is essentially a long scene set in a single location, and you watch in amazement as the scene grows into one of Indian cinema's funniest and most spectacular pieces of sustained craftsmanship, accumulating emotional power and subtext, growing wings and claws, becoming its own beast, applauds Sreehari Nair.

The reasons are too private to be discussed at a round table, listed out during a seminar, or uncovered in an academic course.A proud but insomniac connoisseur murmuring in his sleep may do a better job of explaining the phenomenon than an expert on a podium. Sreehari Nair airs his thoughts.

Watching Aavesham is like sprinting through the whole history of our mass-masala movies and seeing it in a new light, notes Sreehari Nair.And this, incidentally, is the story of Fahadh Faasil's career too.

'Everyone knows the money the stars are asking for is absurd.'

Angry Young Men misses some important elements of the Salim-Javed story including an understanding of the duo's creative process. In fact, the two men do not even appear together in the same space in the series.

How wonderful it would be for all of us to watch the Oscar ceremony on March 2, 2025 and watch AWIAL win an Oscar, notes Aseem Chhabra.

They try to hide behind the smokescreen that these are works of fiction inspired by real events.So, you can pick and choose from facts and fictionalise to push the right triggers with your audience or appease the powers that be, observes Shekhar Gupta.

From start to finish, <em>Dharmaveer 2</em> feels less like a biopic and more like propaganda crafted for Eknath Shinde's political gain, observes Prasanna D Zore.

When mainstream Hindi cinema is preoccupied with romance, comedy, horror and action, stories about sisters and brothers are very rare. Vasan Bala has made a first-of-its-kind film where the leads play sister and brother, notes Aseem Chhabra.

Bring me the mundane lives of the working class next. At least, it won't be as embarrassing as this, asserts Mayur Sanap.

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This little snippet can come in handy when you need to serve a different header on a per page basis. All you need to do is create a new header file – header-yourfilename.php and then put in some logic in your desired template file. In my case I have a header file called header-home.php and in my homepage template I ... Read more

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Do you ever find yourself trying to remember the URL path of you images directory? Well with Sass you can quickly add the path to the desired location and just use the variable throughout your code. Sass to the rescue. All you need to do is declare the variable and then use the interpolation syntax when you reference it. More ... Read more

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During WordPress theme development you will more then likely need to display some images that are located within your theme directory. The location of the images folder can vary greatly. It really comes down to how you like to set things up. Generally speaking if you were to have an images folder in the root of your theme you can ... Read more

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There are a few ways to implement the clearfix hack but the following Sass Mixin has been in my toolbox for the last year thanks to this article on Nicolas Gallaghers blog. Usage:

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Recently I had a great conversation with an outstanding User Experience designer about a few interactions on a project we were working on. One of the points we talked about was, what should happen when text within input fields are excessively long. The desired result we both agreed on was to change the font size of the html input field ... Read more

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WordPress shortcodes are a simple way to set up functions to create macro codes for use in post content. For instance, the following shortcode (in the post/page content) would add your recent posts into the page: It’s pretty simple and brings your WordPress blog alive with ease. Recent Post Short Code In WordPress 1 Add this code to your functions.php file. 2 ... Read more

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This snippet is super small but is super handy. It detects to see if JavaScript is enabled on the users browser. If yes, a class will be added to the <body> tag Adds the class yourClassName to <body> tag if Javascript is enabled.

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Much can be said about this song’s sacred and secular connotations. At first glance, one might assume that the song speaks to its religious roots; however, given the environment in which the song was created, the song can be taken literally. Taken from The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s enhanced CD, From Ear to Ear, and adapted from field recordings by John and Alan Lomax, this song was known to have been sung by the 1871 Fisk University Jubilee Singers.

The Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg carry forward the tradition of military music heard on the battlefields of Yorktown.

Carols, motets, hymns, songs, and madrigals reflect the enthusiastic joy and high spirits of Yuletide celebrations in Williamsburg.

Recorded in an authentic tavern environment similar to what might have been experienced in 18th-century Williamsburg.

Colonial Williamsburg's Michael Monaco performs Peter Pelham's repertoire of 18th century music on the period keyboard instruments of the Governor's Palace.

On this recording of period music, the Cross Violin, Kirckman Harpsichord, Keene Spinet, Broadwood Pianoforte and three flutes are played just as they were in colonial times.

New lyrics set to familiar (or some not so familiar) English melodies, recorded using 18th-century instrumentation to recreate the ambience of a small tavern or public meeting place.

Another fine collection of military and marching music performed by the Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg.

Selected performances from nine of Colonial Williamsburg's recordings, including fife and drum marches, chamber music, slave chants, and tavern songs.

From the Summer 2002 Journal: "Making "Cents" of Colonial Money"

From the Summer 2002 Journal: "Making "Cents" of Colonial Money"

From the Summer 2002 Journal: "Making "Cents" of Colonial Money"

From the Summer 2002 Journal: "Making "Cents" of Colonial Money"

From the Summer 2002 Journal: "Making "Cents" of Colonial Money"

From the Summer 2002 Journal: "Making "Cents" of Colonial Money"

In October 2010, the hosts of Backstory visited Colonial Williamsburg's Kimball Theatre to perform a live show.

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