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...
A new controversy has rocked the Tamil entertainment industry after actor Anugraha S Nambiar launched a scathing attack against the makers of the ongoing Tamil JioHotstar series, Resort, accusing them of non-payment of remuneration and contractual traps. She also levelled serious accusations against the show’s lead actor, Vijay Kumar Rajendran (Eruma Saani), and his wife,...
3 min readHyderabadApr 26, 2026 05:19 PM IST The Tamil film industry woke up to a significant shift on Sunday as the Tamil Film Producers Council held its general body meeting and passed a resolution that could fundamentally change how its biggest films are made and how the talent in them are paid. According to...
4 min readHyderabadApr 26, 2026 01:50 PM IST For Prabhu Deva, it started with a VCR hired for an evening and a cassette of Thriller. He was in the middle of his Bharatanatyam training when he first encountered Michael Jackson, and the collision of those two worlds, classical Indian dance and the most electric performer...
3 min readHyderabadApr 26, 2026 11:07 AM IST Dhanush is not the kind of actor who gives motivational speeches easily. But at the pre-release event for his upcoming film Kara on Saturday , he said something with an unusual weight, because it was backed by a career that actually proves the point he was trying...
