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"Sacred Relics Reach Arunachal’s Golden Pagoda for Final Phase of Public Veneration"
Sacred relics associated with Lord Buddha have arrived at the Golden Pagoda in Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh, marking the final phase of their public exposition and veneration. The event underscores the site’s growing role as a major Buddhist pilgrimage and cultural centre in India’s Northeast, with significance extending beyond devotion into heritage diplomacy and regional identity.
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Mumbai’s Nami Bets on Listening, Not Noise, in a Crowded Nightlife Market
Mumbai’s newest listening bar, Nami, is opening with a proposition that cuts against the city’s default nightlife logic: quieter rooms, better sound, and a more deliberate way to consume music. In a market saturated with high-volume bars and spectacle-driven venues, the concept is positioning itself as an experience built around attention, curation, and atmosphere rather than excess.
‘Wildwood’ Review: A Lush Forest Fable Undone by Drift and Delay
‘Wildwood’ arrives with the visual promise of a richly imagined forest tale, but the film steadily loses momentum as its screenplay settles into languor and its editing fails to impose urgency. What begins as an alluring atmospheric journey ultimately feels underpowered, with the movie’s strongest asset—its world-building—left stranded by narrative slackness.
'DNK' review: Mouli's crime comedy is amusing but overstuffed
Debut director Sreenu Kambala’s Telugu film 'DNK' arrives with a cheeky crime-comedy premise and enough comic energy to keep audiences engaged in stretches. But the film’s crowded writing, repeated gags and multiple subplots blunt its impact, leaving a lively idea that never fully settles into a sharp, cohesive whole.
Documentary on Rural Girls’ Education Drive Wins UN SDG Award
A documentary chronicling a girls’ education campaign in rural India has won a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals award, drawing fresh attention to the power of storytelling in advancing social change. The recognition places the film within a wider global conversation on education access, gender equity, and the role of media in amplifying grassroots development work.
Shivathmika Rajashekar Says 'ENE Repeat' Marked a Mainstream Breakthrough She Never Expected
Actor Shivathmika Rajashekar has reflected on the arc of her career across Telugu and Tamil cinema, saying she never imagined herself in a large-scale mainstream film like Tharun Bhascker's 'ENE Repeat'. Her comments also underscore the range she has pursued on screen, from commercial projects to a challenging role as a sex worker in the web series 'Varam'.
Richard Bach’s ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ Takes Flight in Bharatanatyam in Chennai
Jayanthi Subramaniam’s ‘Jyotir Gamaya,’ recently staged in Chennai, reimagined Richard Bach’s allegorical novella through the grammar of Bharatanatyam. The production used imaginative choreography to trace a seagull’s pursuit of freedom, self-discovery, and transcendence, underscoring how classical Indian dance can absorb global literary ideas without losing its own aesthetic discipline.
‘The Personal Is Political’: Dilpreet Bhullar’s New Photobook Gives Refugees a Visual Voice
Dilpreet Bhullar’s new photobook, Lands We Inherit: Lines We Breathe, turns refugee memory into a carefully constructed visual archive, combining photographs of personal objects, first-person testimonies and cyanotype-rendered archival maps. The work frames displacement not as abstraction but as lived inheritance, placing intimate evidence at the centre of a broader conversation about identity, belonging and historical rupture.
Black Doves Season 2 Tightens the Thrills, Even as It Keeps Its Bloody Wit
Black Doves returns for a second season with a leaner, more controlled rhythm, while still leaning into the series’ signature mix of violence, espionage and dark comedy. Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw remain the show’s emotional anchors, and the quieter passages give the thriller more weight than its more chaotic set pieces.
Young Shadaj Iyer Revives the Rare Agra Gharana in the Spotlight
At 23, Shadaj Iyer is emerging as an unusual young standard-bearer for the Agra gharana, one of Hindustani music’s most demanding and least frequently heard vocal traditions. Born into a Kanchipuram family that later settled in Ahmedabad, he is drawing attention for choosing a path that prizes weight, discipline and stylistic fidelity over easier commercial visibility.
Veteran Cinematographer Shaji Kumar Dies in Kochi at 57
Noted cinematographer Shaji Kumar has died in Kochi at the age of 57 following cardiac failure, prompting an outpouring of grief from India’s film fraternity. His death marks the loss of a widely respected visual craftsman whose work helped shape the look and emotional texture of Malayalam cinema.
Itllu Arjuna Review: Slick Craft, Safe Choices Undercut Aniesh and Anaswara Rajan's Action-Romance
Debut director Mahesh Uppala's Telugu entertainer "Itllu Arjuna" arrives with polished visuals, passable humour and a commercially tuned action-romance template, but the film ultimately feels overfamiliar and too cautious to leave a lasting mark. While Aniesh and Anaswara Rajan bring energy to the central pairing, the narrative leans on contrivance and formula rather than emotional or dramatic conviction.
Beyond the Classroom: A Film That Reframes Who We Call a Teacher
This reflective film review examines how the story expands the idea of teaching beyond schools, chalkboards and formal authority. By centring everyday acts of guidance, the film argues that life lessons often come from the least expected people and moments.