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An endearing performer
Handsome and dignified, Gregory Peck was considered the embodiment of American decency. A tribute to the versatile actor who passed away recently.
Entertainment

Adventures of Tenali Raman
FIRST IT was the Ramayan. Now it is Tenali Raman. Cartoon Network has brought to the small screen the adventures of one of the most popular and best-loved characters of Indian history. What's more, this is the first time an Indian story is having ...

Cinema

Majestic presence
AMONG THE mega stars of Hollywood, not many are as affectionately respected and universally adored as Gregory Peck. For five decades and more since his Hollywood debut in 1943 with "Day of Glory" and his first hit, "The Keys of the Kingdom" ...


"Paarai"
HE MAY seem callous and indifferent but beneath the façade is a kind, helping heart. Almost always there are takers for such heroes, whom viewers are only too familiar with. So here's another rough, rugged looking, likeable man in Mass Movie ...
"The Matrix Reloaded"
SHE IS leather clad and thinks nothing about diving from a high rise window and falls several stories below — and he is the gravity defying Chosen One who soars, punches, kicks an exile agent, who turns himself into a computer virus and ...
Shocks, jolts and classic horror
AN UNEXPECTED hit, "Bhoot" proves that good genre cinema can compete with blockbusters. What I'm beginning to like about Ramgopal Varma is that he never gives up making genre movies. Whether he gets it right or not, whether it's a hit or a flop, ...

Music

Felicitation
THE MAHARAJAPURAM Santhanam Foundation will felicitate musician Trichur V. Ramachandran with the Maharajapuram Santhanam Memorial Award, at a function to be held on June 22, at the Narada Gana Sabha. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 10,000, ...
Versatile exponent of Harikatha
A diligent bank officer during the day and a Harikatha exponent in the evening, T. S. Balakrishna Sastrigal straddled two worlds with absolute ease. DVV pays tribute to the veteran who passed away recently.
Harmonious blend with the West
IN THIS audio album, she has combined the violin, nagaswaram and the veena with pleasing renditions of songs of well-known composers such as Tyagaraja, Muthiah Bhagavatar and Patnam Subramania Iyer that have leanings to the Western system of ...
Trust for a cause
SREE NADA Varsha, a non-commercial cultural organisation, set up by a musically inclined team is into its third year now. Service to music, especially instrumental, with accent on veena, is the aim. And at the helm is Hema Veeraraghavan, a veena ...
Filled with bhava
A SWEET Shankarabharanam alapana for Tyagaraja's "Buddiradu Buddiradu Peddala Suddulu Vinaka" featured S. Sowmya's concert at P. Obul Reddy Hall, Vani Mahal, on the occasion of the release of the fourth volume of `Know Your Thyagaraja' by SVK. In ...
Music competition
SRI SUPRABHATA Sabha will be conducting an open music competition (classical and devotional) as part of their 34th anniversary celebrations that falls on July 13. There will be two categories each — junior (8 to 12 years) and senior (13 to ...

Dance

Centenary celebration
IN ORDER to commemorate the birth centenary of Rukmini Devi Arundale, Gummah Prefecture Indo-Japan Association, Indian Community of Japan, Chlyoda Ward in Tokyo and Embassy of India invited the Centre for Contemporary Culture, New Delhi, to hold ...

Drama

Only the drama was missing
FOUR DIFFERENT stories. Of eve teasing, child abuse, harassment for dowry and discrimination against the girl child. Four women artistes of the Pareeksha Tamil theatre group gave short solo presentations under the title "Naangal" on a range of ...

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