In a notable development in favour of legendary composer Ilaiyaraaja, the Madras High Court has issued an interim order prohibiting the makers of the 2025 Tamil action-comedy Good Bad Ugly from using three of his songs featured in the film, allegedly without his permission. As a result, Mythri Movie Makers, the producers of the movie,...
Madharaasi worldwide box office collection Day 3: Prior to its release on September 5, Madharaasi, starring Sivakarthikeyan in the lead role, generated considerable buzz as it marked the first collaboration between AR Murugadoss and the Amaran actor, despite the director’s recent projects underperforming at the box office. However, that has not translated into strong footfalls,...
A casting coup is in the making as Tamil superstars Kamal Haasan, 70, and Rajinikanth, 74, are all set to reunite on the big screen 46 years after their last film together, IV Sasi’s 1979 fantasy film Allauddinum Albhutha Vilakkum, which was based on Aladdin’s story One Thousand and One Nights. While Haasan played the...
Films, actors and technicians from the Tamil and Malayalam film industries were honoured at the South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA) 2025 held in Dubai on Saturday. In the Tamil category, films like Amaran and Lubber Pandhu bagged several awards, while Prithviraj Sukumaran’s Aadujeevitham: The Goat Life dominated the Malayalam category. Check out the complete...
“I wanted to make a film about the frequent power cut issue in Tamil Nadu 10 or 15 years back, and also speak about the ageing farmers killing themselves in the villages due to the lack of support for agriculture. But these are very serious issues to make a commercial film about, so I decided...
Amazon Prime Video has come out with the streaming release announcement for Rajinikanth’s Coolie, which is still running in some theatres. The film, which opened to mixed reviews, is one of the biggest releases of the year, and together with War 2 revived the summer box office. This action film, directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, which...
Dhruv Vikram will be making his comeback to the big screen, starring in the lead role in Mari Selvaraj’s Bison Kaalamadan. The team recently released the first single ‘Theekkoluthi’ , and the most exciting part of that song is that it has been penned by none else than Maari Selvaraj. The music video begins with...
After working continuously for over three decades, Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman has finally decided to slow down. In a recent interview, Rahman shared his decision to embrace a slower pace of work in order to achieve a better work-life balance. In an interview with IANS, AR Rahman revealed what prompted his decision to slow down...
While the film industry has seen several iconic director–composer collaborations over the decades, the Lokesh Kanagaraj–Anirudh Ravichander duo ranks among the most celebrated in contemporary Indian cinema. Having first worked together on Lokesh’s third directorial venture, the Thalapathy Vijay-starrer Master (2021), Anirudh has composed the music for all of the director’s films — Vikram (2022),...
Despite arriving with massive hype and boasting a cast and crew featuring some of the biggest names in the industry, Lokesh Kanagaraj’s Rajinikanth-starrer Coolie failed to capitalise on the pre-release buzz. This was mainly because the movie failed to impress audiences generally, squashing its hopes of becoming the highest-grossing Tamil film of all time. Although...
