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2 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporterindia.com | Gautam Sunder
During the recent launch of Thug Life in Chennai, Kamal Haasan drew the most applause from the audience when he recalled hanging out with Mani Ratnam and A.R. Rahman together during the making of the movie. “Mani and A.R. Rahman are both similar in that sense; they only talk about cinema all the time. There is no unnecessary gossip or chatter... I’ve actually learnt to talk less from them,” exclaimed Haasan, to much laughter from Rahman himself.
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1 month ago | 
hollywoodreporterindia.com | Gautam Sunder
From Butta Bomma to Arabic Kuthu to Kanimaa, Pooja Hegde really has a knack of having her songs (and hook steps) go viral right before the film’s release. Ahead of Retro’s release this week, the actor’s carefully-curated look in the film and dance moves set to Santhosh Narayanan’s addictive beats are the rage on Instagram — and she couldn’t be more pleased. “Everything about Retro has been such a fabulous and soul-satisfying journey.
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2 months ago | 
hollywoodreporterindia.com | Gautam Sunder
G.V. Prakash Kumar calls Good Bad Ugly one of the most challenging projects he’s ever worked on. “It’s because I entered the project quite late — just in the last 30 days — and I had exactly one month to score for the film, as well as compose fresh music for songs that had already been shot. In fact, the entire film was completed; so I basically had the final visual footage in hand, and my songs had to match the lip sync throughout the duration. It wasn’t easy...
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Gautam Sunder
An uncharacteristically wet October has seen several parts of south India swathed in heavy rainfall over the last couple of weeks, thanks to the north-east monsoon. Depending on how many power outages and building leaks you are annually subject to during this period, one’s idea of romanticising the showers might differ accordingly — but it goes without saying that filmmakers, for long, have used the phenomenon as heady motifs.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Gautam Sunder
After her breakout role as the doomed queen bee Jackie Taylor in the survival thriller Yellowjackets, it seemed like only a matter of time that Ella Purnell and her eyes would take over the world.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Gautam Sunder
Run across Manhattan for an entire night dressed only in his underwear and socks… but get chased around relentlessly by Brad Pitt and George Clooney. It was the easiest career decision Austin Abrams ever had to make. “It was crazy,” gushes Abrams, on a Zoom call from his home in Los Angeles, with a 2001: A Space Odyssey poster on the wall behind him. “It is still crazy to me. I was thinking about this whole experience last night and I’m amazed I did something like this.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Gautam Sunder
For years — a decade, almost — Cristin Milioti was simply known as The Mother to fans of How I Met Your Mother, a role with which she broke hearts and had audiences clamouring for a rewrite of her character to keep her alive. Then in 2020, her life changed after starring in the dazzling time-loop rom-com Palm Springs that was a surprise Sundance darling and captivated audiences globally, and Cristin quickly became one of Hollywood’s hottest properties.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Gautam Sunder
Naomie Ackie’s biggest regret in life is that she did not get to be part of the Harry Potter movies. “I’m still desperate to be part of the franchise in some way! Growing up, I was such a huge Potter fan and I was so jealous of all the kids who were cast in the movies. I really wanted to be Hermoine (Granger), but obviously that part was already taken and played beautifully by Emma Watson. When I was 15, I auditioned to play Lavender Brown and got to the second round...
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Seth Rogen dazzle |Gautam Sunder
The months of July and August popularly see Friendship Day celebrated across the world, and there’s no better time to indulge in some on-screen bromance, sisterhood, platonic love and everything in between. In Bollywood, the genre has perhaps become oversaturated in recent years, with Rajamouli’s testosterone-fuelled brotherhood in RRR (and Baahubali, to a certain extent) inspiring several of the ilk; some mildly enjoyable, most dithering.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Gautam Sunder
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s friendship has been well-documented in Hollywood folklore for decades; there isn’t a more famous celebrity friendship in modern-day pop culture. The duo, most recently, collaborated on last year’s sports biopic Air, directed by Ben and starring Matt; both the superstars produced it together under their newly-formed production company Artists Equity. So what could be better than working with your best friend? “Working with your best friend’s brother too!” grins Matt.
