4 min readHyderabadMay 23, 2026 02:35 PM IST RJ Balaji’s Karuppu has crossed Rs 200 crore at the worldwide box office within eight days of release, becoming Suriya’s highest-grossing film ever. The film has also ended a nine-month dry spell at the Tamil Nadu box office, emerging as the first Tamil release since Coolie to...
4 min readHyderabadMay 23, 2026 12:25 PM IST Vijay may already be Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, but the film that was supposed to mark his farewell to cinema is still stuck awaiting censor clearance. Producer Venkat K Narayana on Friday confirmed that Jana Nayagan had not yet received certification from the CBFC, months after...
3 min readNew DelhiMay 22, 2026 08:10 PM IST Actor-politician C. Joseph Vijay has been making headlines ever since he took oath as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Just days after filmmaker Venkat Prabhu gifted him the number plate that seemingly predicted his political victory, Vijay has now received another special gift. On Friday,...
3 min readHyderabadMay 21, 2026 10:07 PM IST He dropped out of school in the third standard, started life as a bus cleaner, and went on to manufacture India’s first electric motor, build a prototype car, and earn the title “Edison of India” from the scientific community of his time. His name was Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy...
3 min readHyderabadMay 21, 2026 09:25 PM IST When Pa Ranjith speaks about politics, he does not speak as a casual observer. He speaks as someone who has spent his entire career, across films like Kabali, Kaala, Madras and Sarpatta Parambarai, arguing that the stories a society tells about itself are inseparable from the power...
4 min readHyderabadMay 21, 2026 08:23 PM IST Jyotika has watched Suriya make films for as long as she has known him. She knows what a hit looks like and she knows what a performance looks like. What the actor said about Karuppu was that it gave her both and that the last ten minutes...
4 min readChennaiMay 21, 2026 02:31 PM IST Karuppu box office collection day 6: RJ Balaji’s action thriller Karuppu, starring Suriya, Trisha, and himself, has now made history at the domestic box office. After becoming the highest grossing Tamil film of 2026, it’s now emerged as the highest grossing film of Suriya in India, and also...
Unlike many star kids, actor-director R Madhavan’s son, Vedaant Madhavan, has chosen a path that’s not even remotely related to show business. Almost 20 now, Vedaant is a renowned freestyle swimmer who has already won several gold medals at prestigious championships. Interestingly, Madhavan and his wife, Sarita Birje, even relocated to Dubai during the COVID-induced...
4 min readHyderabadMay 20, 2026 01:44 PM IST May has always been Trisha Krishnan’s month in one sense because she was born in it. But May 2026 gave her considerably more than a birthday to remember it by. Three weeks into the month, she posted behind-the-scenes photographs from Karuppu on Instagram with the caption: “My...
Karuppu box office collection day 5: Five days into its theatrical run, Karuppu is showing no signs of a steep drop. The Tamil fantasy action drama starring Suriya and Trisha Krishnan collected Rs 12.75 crore net in India on Tuesday across 6,093 shows, according to industry tracker Sacnilk. The worldwide gross across five days for...
