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A private zoo owner climbs up Forbes celeb pole
Celebrities live in a strange and nearly unbelievable age of make-believe, where often times bad news is good news. For all their cinematic talent and box-office success (and, on top …
When a wife-beater campaigns for the Congress
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from San Francisco: A week is a long time in politics; it’s even longer in the film industry, where reputations are made and marred over a weekend. …
What’s in Poo’s name? Try asking Dr Bum Ramesh
VIKRAM MUTHANNA writes: Many Indian kids, after they grow up, have trouble with long, tongue twisting names. Luckily we have nicknames to rescue us. But sometimes nicknames too become just …
To: Nikita Thukral. From: Kannada producers
The withdrawal of the “ban” on the actress Nikita Thukral by the Karnataka film producers’ association may appear as if wisdom finally dawned on the moneybags of the Kannada tinsel …
‘Darshan scandal reveals Kannada bias, bigotry’
Although films and film stars, especially in the languages, have a huge impact over the masses, the mainstream English media treat it with contempt and disdain. The junior-most reporters are …
CHURUMURI POLL: Should Darshan be banned?
The principles of natural justice in l’affaire Darshan Tugudeep have been turned on their head by the 42-member Karnataka film producers’ association which has unilaterally and unanimously “banned” the actress …
What Darshan’s brutality says about Scandalwood
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from San Francisco: There are plenty of things to infuriate a dispassionate news consumer watching India from a distance these days, but as a fully paid-up Kannadiga, …
The axe effect reaches parts other sodas don’t
Mention the state of Kannada cinema, and everyone waxes eloquent about Mungaaru Male, although it is only one of over a hundred films made in Sandalwood, and it was made …