Tollywood

Reading RRR as queer: Ram Charan, Jr NTR's buddy film has all the trappings of a conventional heterosexual romance

All the markers of the traditional love story are given to the men of RRR — a meet cute, a musical interlude intensifying affection, the exchange of a protective thread, a conflict, a chasm, a reunion.

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.

Opinion| S. S. Rajamouli's RRR: A visual feast, but what else?

The long and eagerly awaited Rajamouli epic, the follow-up to the phenomenal Baahubali is here, but does RRR live up to the hype and expectations? Subhash K Jha finds out.

RRR’s Ram Charan turns 37

Telugu superstar Ram Charan couldn’t have hoped for a better birthday gift than Rajamouli’s RRR.

10 Questions for the makers of ‘Radhe Shyam’

Why does Bhagyashree, the ‘No Sorry No Thank You’ girl from Maine Pyar Kiya play Prabhas’ mother? Doesn’t she look young enough to be his kid sister!

Will ‘Radhe Shyam’ click in Hindi?

The producers are not sure of how the audience will respond to Prabhas doing a moonstruck Romeo in ‘Radhe Shyam’

First Take | From Hridayam to Jan.E.Man to Bachelor, young actors are taking over South cinema

In Malayalam cinema, we have the wonderful Tovino Thomas flying high in Minnal Murali alongside the Mammootys, Mohanlals, Fahadh Faasils, and Dulquer Salmaans.

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.

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.