'If I don't act for a week I become edgy, restless and moody.'Subhash K Jha salutes Manoj Bajpayee, actor extraordinaire, on his 53rd birthday.

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'I don't think my troubles would have happened if she was with me. I kind of lost my way after she was gone,' Sanjay Dutt once told Subhash K Jha about his mother Nargis, the legendary actress who passed away this day 41 years ago.

If Irrfan could have been our finest professor of empirical philosophy, and Nawaz is our foremost poet of that space halfway between the gutter and the stars, then Jaideep Ahlawat has to be our greatest artist-scientist, asserts Sreehari Nair.

Ranveer is loud, but not shrill, notes Subhash K Jha.As in singing, in acting holding your pitch in the higher notes is a Himalayan task.Ranveer resides on the highest notes of the musical mountain and still manages to be coherent, fluent and persuasive.

Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.

Nobody else needs to boycott Bollywood, they are doing a pretty good job of digging up their own foundation, notes Deepa Gahlot.

Long before she won royalty rights for playback singers, there was an undisclosed incident in Lataji's life where she not only put a male colleague in place, but also refused to sing with him thereafter.

The composer thanked other artists for the making of the song.

More than anything else, Pathaan is a silent and subtle statement of Shah Rukh Khan about his place, his commitment to cinema and, if one can say, his politics, observes Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.

Let us get high on Pathaan and his simple-minded antics, sure, but let us also take a moment to think about Jim who, with that one cunning piece of dialogue, goes on to boldly state that patriotism is a many-hued thing, observes Sreehari Nair.

Kindness and compassion is all you need to survive and build your life. And that is what makes 2018's Kerala story so relevant, notes Divya Nair.

As Independent India turned 76, so did the ethereal Raakhee I know better than most, says Subhash K Jha.

None of R D Burman's collaborations was as rewarding and resplendent as with Gulzar, who turns 89 today, August 18, 2023, says Subhash K Jha.

We are back to being a country that talks about box office numbers as the measure for what an audience's real feelings about a movie are, laments Sreehari Nair.

As Mahesh Bhatt turns 75 on September 20, Subhash K Jha calls him the 'eternal seeker of truth in cinema and in life'.

I do have a dream biopic. It has as its subject Renu Saluja, the cosmically gifted editor, with a special focus on the Vidhu Vinod Chopra-Saluja-Sudhir Mishra love story, says Sreehari Nair.

'For god's sake, portray the armed forces in the correct manner,' asserts IAF veteran Air Commodore Nitin Sathe after watching Tejas.

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

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

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

'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.

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.

[Place of publication not identified] : Filmhub, [2023]

Although the comet was closest to Earth on October 12, the inclement weather in Thiruvananthapuram hindered observations on that day

It’s a normal day, a random moment, but suddenly something clicks. You think, “Wait, have I been in this exact situation before?” You start to wonder if you can see the future. But what you’re experiencing is something called déjà vu.

The meteorite would have delivered a large amount of phosphorous, a nutrient for microbes crucial for the molecules central to storing and conveying genetic information.

The mission will simulate life in an interplanetary habitat to tackle the challenges of a base station beyond the earth

Lanham : Hamilton Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2024]

London : Centre of Islamic Studies, 1999-

Coimbatore's Bobby Balachandran does not just have out-of-the-box ideas. The entrepreneur is also keen on mentoring youngsters and giving them a chance to hone their business skills

An inspiring story of three women who've taken advantage of changing technology and attitudes to occupy top corporate jobs

It's now cool to wear Tamil on your sleeve. Brand Thamizha is here

A relatively small e-commerce start-up Tagtile, co-founded by two IIT graduates, was acquired by Facebook last week.

Trying to bridge the gap between engineering classrooms and eventual workplaces is Lab Electronics, a company that manufactures educational electronics training devices and simulators

Perambalur district allocated Rs.2.85 crore subsidy for poultry development

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has left the International Space Station (ISS) and is on its way back to Earth. 

It lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today at after 5:23 a.m. EDT (2:54 PM IST) from historic Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

Due to climate change and rising global temperatures, the glaciers had been gradually thinning. When the glacier finally gave way, it sent a colossal amount of debris tumbling into the fjord, displacing enough material to fill around 10,000 Olympic-sized pools.

Union Cabinet today approved the 'Chandrayaan-4' mission, aimed at developing and demonstrating the technologies required for landing Indian astronauts on the moon and ensuring their safe return to Earth. 

The Hindu Theatre Fest, which opens in Hyderabad on August 19, promises a line up of unique stories

‘Meera — the Soul Divine’ combined artistry and aesthetics, writes Jagyaseni Chatterjee

Meanwhile, the dollar index gained 0.16 per cent to 102.85 points

Rupee weighed down by a firm dollar, geopolitical tensions in West Asia

Meanwhile, the dollar index was trading 0.03 per cent lower at 103.17

Meanwhile, the dollar index was trading 0.06 per cent higher at 103.19

Forex traders say a mixed-to-positive tone in the domestic market also supported rupee