PHOTOS: Indians across the world celebrate Independence Day

Soaked in patriotism, hundreds of Indians abroad on Tuesday marked the country's 71st Independence Day with the tricolour fluttering high and the national anthem reverberating at Indian missions......

Rajnikanth rocks!

Having struck gold at the box office in India and abroad with Rajnikanth starrer Sivaji: The Boss, AVM Productions is trying to work out another foreign release in Malay and Chinese as dubbed......

Of film festivals and dealing with mortality

Reporting from the recently concluded International Film Festival of Kerala, Rajeev Srinivasan writes about two particularly striking films that were screened at the fest.The 17th International......

Is Jallikattu the right choice for the Oscars?

'I believe FFI has made a mistake,' notes Aseem Chhabra. IMAGE: A scene from The Disciple. This year one Indian film achieved the kind of international success that is rarely showered upon cinema......

'We all need a little piece of utopia in our life'

'This was a film, a story that had never been told before.' IMAGE: Koji Yakusho in Perfect Days. For the last four-and-a-half decades German film-maker Wim Wenders has been making compassionate......

Sports sagas: When real life inspired reel...

It was double whammy for Indian sports lovers over the weekend as two big biopics hit cinema screens on Friday, the 13th. Pele: Birth of a Legend and Azhar, biographical films on two sports icons,......

Sports Shorts: Mary Kom to hit your TV screens soon

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Anna Sarkissian, left, and Ameesha Joshi with India's boxing queen M C Mary Kom. Photograph Courtesy: Anna......