Salim Kumar, only Malayalam comedian to win National Award for Best Actor, dead at 56
He learned to perform on a mimicry stage in Cochin. He finished on a national podium. The house in North Paravur was named Laughing Villa. It is quiet now.
He learned to perform on a mimicry stage in Cochin. He finished on a national podium. The house in North Paravur was named Laughing Villa. It is quiet now.
He played a librarian who fought demons. He sold coffee to the whole of Britain. He outlasted every trend in television and still showed up, reliable as ever, until he didn't.
The glycerine was ready. Nana Patekar was not interested. What happened next left everyone on set, including Madhoo Shah, stunned, and wrapped up the shoot for half a day.
'Peddi' introduced Janhvi Kapoor waist-first, midriff second, face somewhere after that. Her character Achiyyamma had a name, a costume, and close-up shots of her navel. What she did not have was a story.
The world of Indian classical music lost a brilliant artist on May 14, 2026, with the passing of Ustad Sabir Khan.
Time was when Tamil films had regular press shows, which were held a few days before the movies hit the theatres. But this has now been cancelled, as filmmakers found much to their chagrin that journalists flouted the cardinal rule of journalism: balance.
Co-directors Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy have made a name in Bengali cinema for telling stories that are untold and would have remained so if the duo had not dared to venture into forbidden territories time after time.
A cowgirl, a reunion, and a bridge only Taylor Swift could write. "I Knew It, I Knew You" is on streaming now, and the vinyl is already gone. Swift and Jack Antonoff made a 'Toy Story' song. It sounds exactly as good as that sounds.
The Mishras are back. Same house, same chaos, same love, just a little older and a little more complicated. Season 5 of Gullak is streaming now, and it feels like coming home.
Her drawings looked like something a child might make. They contained things no child should ever have to know. That tension was the whole art.
