Film and TV

Sreenivasan, the veteran Malayalam actor, screenwriter, director, and producer, passed away in Kochi on Saturday.

After the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting refused screening permission for several films at the International Film Festival of Kerala 2025, including four on Palestine, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that all films denied screening permission will be screened at the festival.

The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has denied the 2025 International Film Festival of Kerala permission to screen 19 films, a list that includes four films about Palestine.

After the trial court pronounced its verdict in the Kerala actor assault case, the survivor-actor issued a strong statement condemning the way the case was handled in court. In a social media post, she wrote, “Not every citizen in this country is treated equally before the law,” calling it a devastating realisation born out of years of pain, tears, and relentless emotional struggle in her fight for justice.

By revealing its villain early and grounding him in the quiet ordinariness of his life, the film creates an immediate tension that sharpens into a decisive standoff with a morally taut opponent.

Dharmendra, veteran actor, known across generations as Bollywood’s original “He-Man,” passed away on Monday morning at his residence in Mumbai. He was 89.

There is no doubt that Selvamani Selvaraj’s Kaantha is an enormously ambitious film. Set in the film studios of 1950s Madras, it immediately offers a delicious premise: a master filmmaker, a superstar, a spiralling ego clash, and a murder lurking in the shadows.

People often say A.R. Rahman saves his best for Mani Ratnam. Watching Mari Selvaraj’s Bison Kaalamaadan, one begins to wonder something similar, if the filmmaker reserves his best for Pa. Ranjith’s productions. Because without doubt, Bison Kaalamaadan is Mari Selvaraj’s finest work yet.

Malayalam cinema has long cherished its lovable fools, and Tony Alula joins that lineage.

In a key scene from Humans in the Loop, Nehma’s supervisor questions her labelling of a worm as a pest. When confronted, Nehma calmly explains that the worm only eats the rotten parts of the leaf, allowing the plant to survive.

The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has allegedly denied certification to the Malayalam film “Haal,” citing objections to a scene featuring beef biryani and dialogues referring to “Ganapatathi vattam,” “Dhwaja pranamam,” and the “Sangh.”

In Kochi, Kerala, the ‘Names of Gaza’ protest organised on Thursday by the Chinta Ravi Foundation and the Palestine Solidarity Forum united writers, activists, students and Malayalam cinema artists to read aloud the names of Palestinian children killed by Israeli occupation.