The lockdown might have allowed film buffs to discover regional films on digital platforms, but interest in dubbed cinema from the South, particularly Telugu and Tamil films, too, has been mushrooming ...

The biopic on Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw is just out and that, interestingly enough, takes me back to a double-spread ad in the film newspaper, Screen, in the late 1970s. Actor and filmmaker N.A.

Once confined to one-off sensations like Pushpa, South Indian movies are now drawing huge audiences in the Hindi heartland, as reflected in their box office numbers. From Mohanlal's recent big-budget ...