Footnote It seems that the Karnataka food and civil supplies minister, Umesh Katti, considers the words of Narendra Modi as final. Seen without a mask at a public event, Katti attributed his decision...

One of Irrfan’s inimitable creations, Rana in Shoojit Sircar’s Piku graces the screen without much ado, unlike the rest of the characters who are constantly on the edge. Yet, it is under R...

Okay, it’s official. Dulquer Salmaan is the new dreamboat on the Bolly block. The Malayalam actor, who smoothly rode on to Mumbai shores last year on a karwaan of talent and charisma, is the best th...

Guess who’s going to be the next big thing in Hindi cinema? Strangely, he’s from Kerala. How quickly scenes shift. A fortnight ago, one lamented the collapse of yet another south Indian star’s d...

About 13 years ago, ad woman Anuja Chauhan wrote her first book. She wrote about the two worlds she knew intimately — advertising and cricket. The Zoya Factor revolves around Zoya Singh Solanki, a y...

He grew up watching his father Mammootty make some of Malayalam cinema’s biggest films, but Dulquer Salmaan never thought he could be an actor. Armed with a business degree from Purdue University, D...