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2 IPS officers transferred, put on wait, over AR Rahman concert mess

A senior official attached with the Tambaram police commissionerate has been transferred and put under compulsory wait, days after the AR Rahman concert row that among others witnessed traffic......

Suhasini reopens Khushboo controversy

Women activists have threatened to file cases against National Award winning actress Suhasini for justifying the controversial remarks made by actress Khushboo over pre-marital sex.''She was......

I'm quite spaced out about fashion: Madhavan

Actor Madhavan is known as the Shah Rukh Khan of the south. And the Hrithik Roshan of the south. "And many more names I have lost count of," he grins. "I only wish I were known as Madhavan of the......

'I am a Tamil-speaking Muslim, I wanted to know my roots'

Yaadhum is a documentary that talks about how Islam spread in South India through trade. The film recently won the Bronze Remi award at the 48th World Fest in Houston. The maker of Yaadhum,......

'Militarisation is a problem in the Tamil areas in Lanka'

'My film depicts the struggle for dignity by Tamils in Sri Lanka' IMAGE: A scene from Muttruppullia? Photographs: Chitram Mathias Anthony Dass. Sherine Xavier, a Sri Lankan Tamil filmmaker from......

CAS, DTH out; Net is in

The clash between the newly-introduced conditional access system and the still-nascent direct-to-home television has come to India far too late, as many countries have done away with both, and......

A filmmaker's journey to the multiplex

Full time film critic with The Hindu, when 31 year old Sudhish Kamath isn't raving about Lost, he takes time off work to make movies. His self-financed first feature, That 4 Letter Word, starring......

Indian ads win glory at Cannes

It was curtains down for the 52nd Cannes Advertising Festival in France on June 25, and India's performance at the prestigious awards fell short of expectations.The advertising agencies flew back......

Test career ends, but 'Brand Dhoni' all set for new innings

Mahendra Singh Dhoni dropped a bombshell on Tuesday by announcing his retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect, but Brand Dhoni will continue to play a long innings. For one, he will......

Who's listening to radio?

Monica Nayyar Patnaik, director, Radio Choklate, owned by the Samvaad newspaper group of Orissa, is both pleased and worried. Pleased because her FM radio station, launched in Bhubaneswar two......

PIX: Deepika Padukone's GORGEOUS appearance at Marrakech Film Festival

Deepika Padukone, who upped the ante in onscreen gorgeousness with two consecutive films -- Chennai Express and Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela -- flew to Morocco to attend the 13th Marrakech......

'Chayilyam is people's cinema'

In the seventies, the avante garde film-maker in Malayalam, the legendary John Abraham, made films with finance collected from a large number of people. For him, cinema was a people's movement. He......

The American who made Tamil films

Filmmaker Karan Bali shares the fascinating story of Ellis Roderick Dungan with Aseem Chhabra. Ellis Roderick Dungan was born in 1908 in Ohio. After travelling to France where he learned......

First Look: Mirchi Siva and Priya Anand in Vanakkam Chennai

Kiruthiga Udhayanidh who won the best director award at the Jaipur International Film festival for her short film Life, is ready with her debut Tamil film Vanakkam Chennai Her husband,......

First Look: Vanakkam Chennai

Vanakkam Chennai is Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi's debut film as a director in Tamil. Her husband, Udhayanidhi Stalin, a well-known producer is producing this film under his banner, Red Giant Movies.......

Test cricket losing identity because of commerce-driven T20, says new documentary

A new documentary titled 'Death of a Gentleman' raises fresh doubts about the future of Test cricket and asks if the game is losing its identity in the face of stiff competition from......

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