Telugu Cinema

RRR lacks what elevated SS Rajamouli's Baahubali from good to great — strong female characters

The women of RRR are so uncooked and ill-written that it is difficult to believe they are conceived by the same man who created Baahubali’s iconic, inimitable Sivagami and Devsena.

Inside the mind of SS Rajamouli: Decoding how the RRR director lends scale to his storytelling

It is the toughest, trickiest thing to go make a blockbuster engineered to please everyone. After the success of RRR, here's trying to understand how SS Rajamouli does it every time.

RRR movie review: SS Rajamouli, Ram Charan, Jr NTR make a lavish meal of a fairly simple storyline

Ram Charan and Jr NTR's offscreen friendship and camaraderie seep into their onscreen performances, and the organic transformation from strangers to brothers-in-arms has been captured beautifully.

The pan-India triumph of Pushpa: The Rise – United we stand in our patriarchy and misogyny

The pan-India success of Pushpa: The Rise only indicates that a country divided by sectarian considerations, languages and deep cultural chasms is united in its embrace of patriarchy and misogyny in mass entertainment.

Pushpa: The Rise beats Sooryavanshi to become the highest grossing Indian film of 2020-21

Pushpa: The Rise has earned Rs 100 crore in Hindi, and over Rs 300 crore overall since its release on 17 December, 2021

The rise and rise of Pushpa: How Allu Arjun film's Hindi dubbed version became pandemic's most successful Indian release

"Pushpa’s incredible, sleeper success proves the pan-India Baahubali formula was not a fluke:" trade analysts weigh in on what made the Hindi dubbed version of Allu Arjun's film a bigger box office success than the original Telugu version.

First Take | Pushpa: The Rise to Kurup, why do we make films about criminals and sociopaths?

I feel sorry for those who get entertained by the endless surge of villainy and the tiresome torrent of tyranny that is unleashed by the volley of unscrupulous villains with sundry mafia-like agendas.

First Take | Why Samantha’s highly provocative item song in Pushpa isn't only surprising, but also highly inappropriate

It is sad to see Samantha stretching herself so anxiously across the screen to prove her point. She may call it a 'special song.' But what she has done in 'Oo Antava Oo Oo Antava' is known as an 'item song.'

Love Story movie review: Sekhar Kammula shows a mirror, but not sans his trademark style

I always look forward to a Sekhar Kammula film because he builds a better world than the one we are living in. But with Love Story, he is in no mood to dream.

Sai Pallavi on reuniting with Sekhar Kammula for Love Story: 'He helps me keep my character in check'

"In the world he’s created, two young people enter a relationship with a certain baggage, and are influenced by their past. But they stay together and confront it, and that is endearing," says Sai Pallavi on Sekhar Kammula's Love Story, co-starring Naga Chaitanya.