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    Cinema yearender 2025: Low-budget, small regional films scored big at the box office

    Kavitha Shanmugam
    21 Dec 2025 6:30 AM IST

    In 2025, as big-budget films mopped up crores worldwide, it was modest regional films with word-of-mouth publicity that delivered the year’s most remarkable box-office triumphs, bringing families back...

    sleeper hits of 2025
    Films
    Avatar: Fire and Ash
    Film Reviews

    Avatar: Fire and Ash review: James Cameron’s big strokes leave little room for nuance

    19 Dec 2025 6:15 PM IST
    Rob Reiner
    Films

    How Rob Reiner turned classic romcom When Harry Met Sally… into his most personal film

    17 Dec 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Great Shamsuddin Family
    Film Reviews

    The Great Shamsuddin Family review: A tender portrait of middle-class Indian Muslims

    16 Dec 2025 10:35 AM IST
    Only film Fraternity is allowed

    Outreach a concern even as Chennai International Film Festival draws young crowds

    14 Dec 2025 5:10 PM IST
    10 contemporary films to look out for at the International Film Festival of Kerala

    10 contemporary films to look out for at the International Film Festival of Kerala

    14 Dec 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Still from the film Padayappa

    Padayappa re-release: When Rajini's punchlines bring down women

    12 Dec 2025 6:30 AM IST
    International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK)

    IFFK turns 30 with a politically charged opening, ‘Palestine 36’ to inaugurate festival

    11 Dec 2025 3:00 PM IST
    Jafar Panahi

    How Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi keeps reinventing against the state’s repression

    6 Dec 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Kalamkaval-Mammootty

    Kalamkaval review: Mammootty’s Cyanide Mohan turn powers a tight serial-killer thriller

    5 Dec 2025 7:20 PM IST
    Dhurandhar

    Dhurandhar review: Ranveer Singh’s tall act barely salvages the shallow spy thriller

    5 Dec 2025 5:48 PM IST
    AVM Saravanan

    Veteran producer AVM Saravanan passes away at 86 in Chennai

    4 Dec 2025 10:21 AM IST
    Tere-Ishk-Mein-Aanand-L-Rai-Dhanush-Kriti-Sanon

    Tere Ishk Mein review: Dhanush and Kriti Sanon wade through a dense, chaotic drama

    28 Nov 2025 4:40 PM IST
    Calorie

    Dolly Ahluwalia on ‘Calorie,’ Air India 182 crash, and aftermath of Operation Blue Star

    27 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Meenakshi Bharat on how Hindi cinema has portrayed Partition | Off the Beaten Track

    Meenakshi Bharat on how Hindi cinema has portrayed Partition | Off the Beaten Track

    Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
    25 Nov 2025 2:51 PM IST

    In an in-depth conversation, scholar Meenakshi Bharat explains how films from Garm Hava to Haider continue to frame India’s understanding of identity,...

    Dharmendra obit

    Dharmendra obit: Hindi cinema’s first-generation superstar, icon of Indian masculinity

    25 Nov 2025 8:24 AM IST
    120 Bahadur

    120 Bahadur review: Farhan Akhtar’s India-China war drama finds its footing in parts

    21 Nov 2025 3:57 PM IST
    Aranya Sahay-Humans-in-the Loop-AI

    How Aranya Sahay’s Humans in the Loop spotlights rural, invisible workers training AI

    20 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Rahul Ravindran-The-Girlfriend.jpg

    Rahul Ravindran on The Girlfriend: ‘It’s moving to know that my film healed many’

    16 Nov 2025 11:55 AM IST
    Agra review

    Agra review: Kanu Behl’s devastating study of sexual repression, dysfunction and trauma

    14 Nov 2025 12:26 PM IST
    Kaantha

    Kaantha review: Dulquer Salmaan’s grand period drama can’t sustain its epic pitch

    14 Nov 2025 11:05 AM IST
    Maharani Season 4

    Maharani Season 4 review: Political thriller has Rani Bharti leave Bihar, its bite behind

    9 Nov 2025 8:55 AM IST
    Haq-Shah Bano-Film-review

    Haq movie review: A poised, rewarding courtroom drama repackages the Shah Bano case

    8 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    horror films

    Lights, camera, scare: Why Bollywood’s horror films feel different now

    5 Nov 2025 11:06 AM IST
    Shah Rukh Khan at 60

    60 years of Shah Rukh Khan and the 1990s boys who grew up on his films

    2 Nov 2025 2:38 PM IST
    Shah Rukh Khan at 60

    Shah Rukh Khan at 60: The last of the superstars, who has taught India how to love

    2 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Arthur Conan Doyle-Sherlock-Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle and the many lives of Sherlock Holmes, world’s most famous detective

    1 Nov 2025 12:55 PM IST
    Roi Roi Binale review

    Roi Roi Binale review: Zubeen Garg’s swansong is a fitting ode to his charismatic persona

    31 Oct 2025 5:40 PM IST
    Puri in Mr India

    When he made ‘Mogambo’ happy: Designer Agasti shares anecdotes on costume in book

    26 Oct 2025 5:37 PM IST
    One Battle After Another-Paul Thomas Anderson

    One Battle After Another: How Paul Thomas Anderson turns filmmaking into a way of thinking

    26 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
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