In February 1968, on a bright day that felt like an awakening, 5,000 people from 124 nations gathered around a lone banyan tree in a dusty corner of Tamil Nadu. They had come to listen to an elderly ...

PS Vinothraj seems to be the 'it-director' when it comes to taking Tamil cinema to the international level. His new film Kottukaali will be the first Tamil film to have its world premiere at the ...

And Shiva Rajkumar wasn’t the only star to appear in a cameo in Jailer. There was the equally popular Mohanlal as Mathew, a crime lord and friend of Muthuvel Pandian, who, just like Narasimha, helps ...

Pongal, the annual harvesting festival of Tamil Nadu bore a forlorn look this year. With the recent demise of the state’s Chief Minister, J Jayalalitha and the destructive cyclone Vardah, people of ...