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.
This, while her husband Ranbir Kapoor's Animal, a film critics called the ultimate male-gaze blockbuster, remains one of the highest-grossing Hindi films in recent memory.
Netflix's co-founder told the public in 2020 that the company collects nothing. Texas says that was false, and that Netflix was already running a large-scale data operation behind the scenes.
The film traces Amrita Sher-Gil’s journey from Budapest to Paris and rural India, capturing her evolution into a pioneering modernist painter. Mira Nair’s long-gestating project brings together an international ensemble cast.
The next chapter of Amazon’s Middle-earth saga will dive deeper into Tolkien’s Second Age, with the War of the Elves and Sauron taking center stage. The new season will also begin adapting the legendary Fall of Númenor.
While both films stem from the same story by Jeethu Joseph, the Malayalam and Hindi versions of ‘Drishyam 3’ are taking sharply different creative paths.
