3 min readHyderabadUpdated: Mar 15, 2026 01:04 PM IST Actor Vijay Sethupathi has never hidden the fact that his taste in films does not always translate to box office numbers. But in a candid recent conversation, he put a figure to it for the first time, spelling out what his journey as a producer has...
When the Bharatiya Jnanpith announced on Saturday that poet, lyricist and novelist R. Vairamuthu had been selected for the 60th Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honour, the congratulations came quickly. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin posted his wishes. Kamal Haasan went on X to call Vairamuthu his mentor and said he was “truly happy”...
1 min readChennaiMar 14, 2026 11:07 PM IST Poet and lyricist Vairamuthu has been selected for the prestigious Jnanpith Award, becoming the third Tamil writer to receive the country’s highest literary honour. The 72-year-old author follows in the footsteps of late novelists Akilan (1975) and Jayakanthan (2002). Congratulating the lyricist, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M...
5 min readHyderabadUpdated: Mar 13, 2026 08:06 PM IST Five years after “Enjoy Enjaami” became one of the most streamed Tamil songs in history, the dispute over who made it still has not been settled. On Friday, the conversation flared up again on social media, this time with music composer Santhosh Narayanan responding directly to...
3 min readHyderabadMar 13, 2026 06:19 PM IST When Trisha Krishnan arrived at Chennai airport on Friday and was met by reporters asking about her recent public appearance with ‘Thalapathy’ Vijay, she kept walking and did not say a word. The clip of the brief moment has since been shared widely online, adding another chapter...
3 min readHyderabadMar 13, 2026 04:31 PM IST When Made in Korea was released on Netflix this Thursday, it became the first Indo-Korean film to reach a mainstream audience. It is a modest production, a feel-good story about a Tamil girl navigating heartbreak in Seoul. But its arrival brought an older, bigger story back to...
4 min readKochiMar 13, 2026 01:54 PM IST South Indian actor Varalaxmi Sarathkumar is currently on cloud nine after making her directorial debut with the Telugu crime drama S Saraswathi. While promoting the movie recently, alongside her co-star Priyamani, the actor-director made certain intriguing remarks about family planning. Claiming that many often don’t contemplate all...
3 min readHyderabadMar 12, 2026 05:52 PM IST Priyanka Chopra was just 18, new to acting and fresh off her Miss World 2000 win, when she stepped onto the set of her first film, the Tamil production Thamizhan in Chennai. What greeted her was a crowd of hundreds who had gathered simply to watch her...
3 min readHyderabadMar 11, 2026 07:00 PM IST Veteran actor Radikaa Sarathkumar did not mince her words at the Thaai Kizhavi success event. Standing in front of a film that was made for roughly Rs 9 crore, with no star hero, no action sequences and no VFX spectacle, she made a pointed argument about what...
2 min readMar 11, 2026 06:06 PM IST Renowned Tamil director and music composer Thakkali Srinivasan has passed away. He breathed his last at the age of 72 in Bengaluru on Tuesday, March 10, following health complications, India Today reported. In a career spanning over two decades, he had also gained popularity as a writer,...
