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Filmmaker Karthik Subbaraj voices deep concern for South Indian cinema. Vijay’s film ‘Jana Nayagan’ faces postponement due to censor certificate delays. This impacts big releases and creative freedom. Indie films like ‘Salliyargal’ struggle for theatre space. Subbaraj urges unity within the film fraternity to address these systemic issues and save cinema. Filmmaker Karthik Subbaraj has…
Breaking onto the silver screen, Agastya Nanda’s ‘Ikkis’ hasn’t quite lived up to the buzz, raking in a disappointing Rs 24.25 crore in its first week. Directed by Sriram Raghavan, this war drama was expected to resonate with viewers, but alas, its Day 7 tally of Rs 1.15 crore suggests it’s falling short compared to…
NAGPUR: Thirty-seven-year-old Rana Pratap Bairagi, who took seven bullets from radical Islamists before he lay sprawled in blood near his ice factory in Bangladesh’s Jessore district, would regularly cough up protection money.“Rana paid 3 lakh taka as protection money in the last few months, but still he’s dead. We are sitting ducks in Bangladesh, don’t…
Venezuela’s interim Prez visited Sai Baba ashram BENGALURU: Delcy Eloina Rodriguez, who has become Venezuela’s interim president after the removal of Nicolas Maduro, visited Prashanthi Nilayam, Sathya Sai Baba’s ashram in Puttaparthi multiple times, indicating a spiritual link with the Indian spiritual leader. However, the Sathya Sai Central Trust (SSCT), which is in-charge of all…
NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old man walked into Laxmi Nagar Police Station on Monday and confessed to killing his mother, sister and teenage brother.When police reached his home, they found the bodies of his mother, Kavita (46), and two siblings – Meghna (24), a lab staffer, and Mukul (14), a Class 7 student. As the family…
Watch a woman at Mumbai airport struggling to balance a latte, a boarding pass, and a toddler who has decided the security check is the perfect place to go limp, and you witness a specific kind of energy. It is the same energy often carried by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan—along with a massive, bottomless tote that…
Despite the star power of Kartik Aaryan and Ananya Panday, their film ‘Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri’ has struggled at the box office, raking in only Rs 32.05 crore by its eleventh day. Analysts point to uninspired content as the main hurdle in drawing in audiences, especially with stronger contenders vying for…
LUCKNOW: For two winter mornings, dense fog over Lucknow turned the skies into a maze for an Air India Express Boeing 737 MAX 8 operating flight from Delhi.On January 2 and January 4, the aircraft circled the city 28 times, spending around 171 minutes hovering above Lucknow, only to return to Delhi without landing.On January…
TOI correspondent from Washington: Greenland is next. One doesn’t have to be a geopolitical genius to divine that Trumpian America will make a grab for the Danish territory. “Soon” according to Katie Miller, the wife of President Trump’s deputy chief of staff and immigration czar Steven Miller.Katie Miller, who served as a communications director for…
With UP-Bihar setting wearing thin, filmmakers are exploring new landscapes but can they move away from old tropes?For years, Bollywood’s favourite ‘badlands’ lay along the UP-Bihar belt of dusty highways and men with guns and grudges. Now, that compass is swinging North-East, once barely on the mainstream filming map.In just three years, the region has…
