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What do the stars do on Deepavali day?

The festival of lights heralds the arrival of movie stars on the silverscreen. But what do the celebrities themselves love doing on the day? We speak to their families

‘For The Record’ recently finished a two-week inaugural run at Delhi’s Black Box Okhla. Photo: Nayantara Parikh

The idea of India

Harsimran Gill What is Indian culture? Who owns it? And who gets to be its arbiter? A new play that questions ideas of representation and Indianness

Watching Abraham and Ghatak in China

Namrata Joshi The Pingyao International Film Festival celebrated the 50th year of Indian New Cinema with a 12-piece retrospective

Vijay in ‘Bigil’: The real strength in this film lies in the emotion

‘Bigil’ movie review: Vijay shines in a colourfully-packaged sports drama that just grazes the goal post

Srinivasa Ramanujam An emotionally-strong tale from the Atlee-Vijay combo which could have used better writing and trimming

Patruni Sastry and fellow drag performers

Hyderabad

preview Hyderabad to have its first-ever Drag Con

Divya Kala Bhavani Drag Con Hyderabad invites the city with open arms to have a blast and grasp the exciting and loving nature of drag culture

From Anu Vardhan’s capsule collection for Isha Foundation’s Save the Weave campaign, based on Nayanthara’s wardrobe in Bigil

Fashion

Channel Nayanthara’s ‘Bigil’ look with this capsule collection

Susanna Myrtle Lazarus Costume designer Anu Vardhan curates sungudi and Kanchi cotton pieces from Nayanthara’s wardrobe in the Vijay film

Patrick Roger’s ‘Ray’ in aluminium at the Grand Hôtel des Ambassadeurs

Art

Advocating hope in Cote d’Azur, with The Biennale of Contemporary Sacred Art

Rosella Stephen In Menton, a new Biennale of Contemporary Sacred Art is about curating what is good for the soul

Movies

Karthi and Lokesh Kanagaraj: a winning combo

Karthi and Lokesh Kanagaraj to reunite for ‘Kaithi 2’

The Hindu Net Desk

Movies

Cinema Nagesh Kukunoor’s first Telugu film ‘Good Luck Sakhi’ stars Keerthy Suresh as a sharp shooter

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo Nagesh Kukunoor had first intended to collaborate with Hrishikesh Mukherjee for this story

Epiphoney

What if we remade classic movies with genders reversed?

Magandeep Singh

Since we are remaking old classic movies with female leads, should we consider the opposite, too?

Movies

Guardians of the earth: on films depicting indigenous communities fighting climate change

Kennith Rosario Narratives on indigenous communities fighting climate change are sweeping accolades at film festivals this year. Honeyland — winner of the Golden Gateway in the International Competition category at MAMI — leads the pack

HBO's 'Succession': Rooting for the Roys

Aniruddha Guha

The show with a cult fandom, treated its fans with a sophomore season that was scintillating, to say the least

Music

Big little book

Gouri Dange

A class apart: Annapurna Devi Photos courtesy: Sangeet Natak Akademi Archives

Movies

The enigma of Annapurna Devi

Shrinkhla Sahai In “Guru Maa”, director Nirmal Chander attempts to make sense of the life and times of one of the most reclusive exponents of Indian classical music

Movies

Sundaylite | People have reduced ‘Pullingo’ to a slur: Gana Stephen

Srivatsan S This budding gana singer has only just stepped into the world of singing and songwriting. But he has already managed to add a catchy word to our colloquial lexicon

Shake a leg: The film’s soundtrack has a few earworms.

Music

A solid partnership

Vipin Nair The Vishal Mishra and Raj Shekhar team proves to be successful for Saand Ki Aankh’s soundtrack

Song and rap: Divine has recently released a new album titled Kohinoor.

Music

Format and function

Narendra Kusnur Two months ago, this column talked of how non-film Indian artistes have been flooding the market with singles, which are accessible either on YouTube or online streaming platforms. Others released an EP with four to five songs. So far, only few artistes have released full-length albums, excepting genres such as classical, ghazals and fusion. For popular non-film music, many believed that singles were the main route to success.Yet, there are always exceptions to the trend. This month, two

Dance

Uma Sathyanarayanan believes that every child must learn some art form

Dance is not just about performing

R Krithika

Indira Kadambi performing at the Ekam festival at Kalashetra in Chennai

Dance

Ekam: An insight into the dancer’s mind

V.V. Ramani Well-thought-out performances marked ‘Ekam’, a concept-based dance festival held in Kalakshetra, Chennai recently

Dance

Balasaraswati Abhinaya Paddati: A look into Bala’s legacy

Bhanu Kumar ABHAI was a partner in presenting a lecture-demonstration by senior disciple, Nandini Ramani

Dance

‘Each allows me to traverse diverse landscapes’

Ambili Ramnath Dancer-architect Meenakshi Srinivasan on what her performance spaces mean to her and how those inspire her

Dance

Malavika Sarukkai plays Arjuna and Krishna in her forthcoming production

Ranjani Govind Bharatanatya exponent Malavika Sarukkai’s latest production, The Battle Within, a solo dance inspired by the Bhagavad Gita will be performed at Bengaluru on November 2.The concept and choreography for the solo dance is by Malavika herself who will be taking on the two male characters of Arjuna and Krishna, while she picturises the larger scene of the epic discourse on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. The Battle Within will have her steps of classical interpretation reading the deeper layers of

12K | Boy trapped in borewell: Efforts to rescue two-year-old Sujith Wilson make slow progress

Besides the Padma Shri, Nanammal had bagged 150 awards, six national-level gold medals, and the Yoga Ratna award of the Government of Karnataka in 2014. File

42K | Yoga teacher Nanammal dies at 99

Rescue operations underway at Nadukattupatti near Manapparai district on Saturday.

12K | Trapped in a borewell: 24 hours on, struggle to rescue two-year-old Sujith Wilson continues

18K | Karthi and Lokesh Kanagaraj to reunite for ‘Kaithi 2’

Sindhi women carry earthen pots during the Jhulelal Chaliha procession in Ahmedabad in 2010.

16K | How the Sindhi community is fighting to keep its rich cross-border culture alive

A glimpse from the rescue operations at Manapparai, Tiruchi

12K | Two-year-old boy slips further into borewell in Manapparai as rescue efforts continue

An image of a boy who fell into an abandoned borewell as seen in a monitor used by the rescue team at Nadukattupatti near Tamil Nadu’s Manapparai town.

25K | Two-year-old boy falls into abandoned borewell in Tamil Nadu

12K | ‘Housefull 4’ review: This Akshay Kumar multi-starrer is no laughing matter

33K | ‘Bigil’ movie review: Vijay shines in a colourful sports drama that just grazes the goal post

Cut me no cuts

The voyage of discovery

A European dominance

A beginner’s guide to the fantastic beasts and the films that embraced them

Thumbnails from Thiruvananthapuram

The Mission of Silence