3 min readHyderabadMay 3, 2026 12:06 PM IST Director Sundar C has spoken for the first time about why he stepped away from Thalaivar 173, the Rajinikanth-starrer produced by Kamal Haasan’s Raaj Kamal Films International. In a candid interview with Behindwoods, Sundar C addressed his exit, “To be honest, it was too much pressure for...
Tamil actress Trisha Krishnan has indicated that she was not invited to the audio launch of her upcoming film Karuppu, through a series of posts on X. The episode began when Dream Warrior Pictures, the film’s production house, released a 37-second video introducing Trisha’s character Preethi, a lawyer, ahead of the film’s May 14 release....
2 min readNew DelhiMay 2, 2026 09:46 AM IST Kara box office collection day 2: Dhanush’s first release of the year, Kara, has now been in the theatres for two days but it appears to be falling short of expectations. The Tamil heist-action thriller opened at Rs 6.20 crore on Thursday, April 30 and witnessed...
Imagine an actor earning Rs 50 crore per project. Now imagine those projects consistently underperforming. The management steps in with a proposal: the Rs 50 crore pay remains intact, but only 50% is paid upfront. The remaining 50% becomes performance-linked—dependent entirely on the film’s success. Suddenly, the actor is uneasy. The guaranteed paycheck is no...
Three decades, 63 films, four Vijay Awards, a Padma Bhushan, and a Gentleman Driver of the Year award from Venice. Ajith Kumar has built a career that does not fit neatly into any single category, and at 55, he seems entirely uninterested in making it fit. Ajith Kumar came up through the ranks of Tamil...
3 min readHyderabadMay 1, 2026 09:24 AM IST Kara box office collection day 1: Dhanush’s much-awaited Tamil thriller Kara made its way to theatres on Thursday, riding on strong pre-release buzz and decent advance bookings.The slow-burn thriller format, set against the backdrop of 1991 Ramanathapuram, appeared to find its audience as the day progressed, with...
4 min readHyderabadApr 30, 2026 07:50 PM IST The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered that Dhruva Natchathiram, the long-delayed Tamil spy thriller directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon and starring Vikram, must be released in theatres on or before June 15. Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, who has been hearing the case, directed the opening of a...
Kara Twitter Review: Actor Dhanush’s highly-anticipated film Karasaami (Kara) finally hit the theatres today, on April 30. The Tamil thriller, directed by Vignesh Raja, has been receiving mixed reviews from the critics. While some are praising the actor’s performance, others are terming the first half of Kara as its ‘strongest part’. Having said that, Dhanush’s...
Venkat K Narayana founded KVN Productions in 2020 with a straightforward ambition: to make world-class films rooted in Karnataka and take Indian cinema to a global audience. Six years on, the Bengaluru-based production house is trying to do that as it is now behind two of the most anticipated films of 2026, but both these...
Thalapathy Vijay‘s final film before his transition to full-time politics has had no shortage of trouble. Jana Nayagan, a Tamil-language political action thriller directed by H. Vinoth, was meant to be a celebratory goodbye for one of Tamil cinema’s most popular stars. Instead, it has spent nearly four months caught in legal proceedings, a piracy...
