‘Technicolour’ seems to be the word of the week when it comes to the releases this Friday. If The Colours Within and Wicked from two different corners of the world are technicolour spectacles, director Karthick Naren’s latest outing, Nirangal Moondru, not only makes for an addition to that list but also treats the three-color process as a metaphor for the …
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Violinist Tang Yun and his girlfriend, composer Lin Ziqing, team up to launch a national tour with classical music and renditions of Chinese folk music. On Aug 22, violinist Tang Yun and his girlfriend, Lin Ziqing, a composer who plays piano, made music together in an intimate concert, just in time for Qixi, China's equivalent of Valentine's Day, at Temple …
If you were to resurrect the tired storyline of a young couple having to meet their partners’ parents and were looking around for someone to play the gruff, disapproving future father-in-law, one name should definitely not pop out. And yet “About My Father” brings out this revered Oscar-winner for a sloppy reprise of that role in a consistently unfunny rom-com …
Timothée Chalamet enchanted the audience in his debut feature as Elio Perlman cycling around in the Italian countryside in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name; a sensual queer love story set in the early 80s. Maren Yearly is busy battling social hierarchies in her high school and defying her father, Frank Yearly’s rules while trying to tame her irresistible …
So screams the title card of Thinkalazhcha Nishchayam, oozing pride for the place in which the film is firmly set, and evoking in the viewer an anticipation for something novel. Her father Vijayan is still living with the ‘shame’ of his elder daughter Surabhi getting married to someone of her choice, rejecting the proposal from a cousin, who also happens …