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Entertainment industry eyes a Phoenix, post pandemic

Entertainment industry eyes a Phoenix, post pandemic

Entertainment industry eyes a Phoenix post pandemic The global entertainment juggernaut that was having a great gambol run was arrested in its stupendous stride with the Ides of March bringing in its wake the world’s deadliest virus, quickly christened Covid-19. As...
Corona chokes Kannada Cinema’s cheerful climb

Corona chokes Kannada Cinema’s cheerful climb

It is nine months now since the curtains were called on a thriving Sandalwood industry that had to shut shop when Corona came calling. The pandemic has had the entire world under its virulent tentacles, spreading dread and death, virtually putting an end to public...
SPB — Tenor Nonpareil

SPB — Tenor Nonpareil

Here once was a colossus cultural phenomenon nonpareil — SPB — a peerless performer par excellence whose magical, mellow voice saw legions of listeners drawn like bees to a honeycomb, as if a Pied Piper has cast a spell upon them to transport them to an Elysian world....
Mysskin — Missing the forest for the trees

Mysskin — Missing the forest for the trees

A perspective peek at the nonet of films that have pitchforked Mysskin into the exalted realm of Kollywood’s cinematic sense   Straddling the Kollywood movie marquee in the last dozen plus years like a lodestar among his peers, Tamil film director Mysskin, nee...
Pandemic pummels cinema into existential vortex

Pandemic pummels cinema into existential vortex

Pandemic pummels cinema into existential vortex Don’t open the pod bay doors, Hal. We need social distancing. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)     Nothing can be alarmingly apocryphal than the above lines from the nearly four decade old film. ‘Social Distancing’...