Mayor Beena Philip attends a session of the Kozhikode Corporation council meeting. File | Photo Credit: K Ragesh Mayor Beena Philip has said that the city corporation will consider the demand to develop Kozhikode as a film production hub and also set up a âfilm cityâ on the land belonging to the now-defunct Gwalior Rayons … Read more
The 54th International Film Festival of India organised by the National Film Development Corporation, and Entertainment Society of Goa concluded on November 28. Close to 270 films from 105 countries were screened in a week in 12 halls at four venues. There were also over 30 lectures and interaction sessions with film personalities, in addition to … Read more
Austrian Film Festival 2023 will be organised on November 16 and 17 in Chennai at Alliance Française of Madras. Three films — How I taught myself to be a child, More than just enemies, and Cafe electric — will be screened as part of the festival, which is organised by Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation (ICAF) … Read more
The mother of Baby C says she is “horrified that someone so evil exists” as the serial killer is sentenced. Source link
Minister for Animal Husbandry J. Chinchu Rani paying her last respects to filmmaker and industrialist K. Raveendranathan Nair in Kollam on Saturday. | Photo Credit: C. SURESHKUMAR Industrialist and renowned film producer K. Ravindranathan Nair passed away in Kollam on Saturday due to age-related ailments. He was 90 and his navathi (ninetieth birth anniversary) celebrations … Read more
Naga Shaurya in the Telugu movie ‘Rangabali’ The Telugu film Rangabali, directed by Pawan Basamsetty, comes across as a bunch of random ideas strung together with a sliver of a story. The film aims to celebrate unabashed hero worship in a templated mainstream Telugu cinema. The protagonist Shaurya (Naga Shaurya) — nicknamed Show and Nani … Read more
A file photo of at Mangaluru Central Railway Station in Mangaluru. | Photo Credit: MANJUNATH HS Southern Railway’s Palakkad division will allow videography and photography in trains, and also at Mangaluru Central and Mangaluru Junction railway stations. Licence fee of ₹5,000 per day will be collected for still photography for wedding and other commercial purposes. … Read more
Randor Guy | Photo Credit: File Photo Actors, film producers and journalists paid rich tributes to writer and film critic Randor Guy, who passed away recently. Film producer Muktha S. Ravi said he knew Randor Guy from when he was a young boy. “He would come on a Jawa bike and would bring a chocolate … Read more
“Gauri,” a documentary based on journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh, directed by Kavitha Lankesh, has won the “Best Long Documentary Award” at the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal 2023. According to a release, the citation of the award reads: “A brave and uncompromising pulse-taking of the current crisis in Indian politics, focusing on the … Read more
Jnanada Kakati, sitting, with film director Bobbeeta Sharma to her right and scriptwriter Jimoni Choudhury behind her. Photo: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A new documentary has traced the “unplanned” cinematic journey of Assam’s first announcer for All India Radio in 1948. Jnanada Kakati stepped accidentally into the world of cinema at a time when working in films … Read more