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‘Valavaara’ Movie Review: When A Missing Cow Leads to An Emotional Discovery
In Sutan Gowda’s sweet Kannada film, a lost cow leads a young boy to discover the meaning of childhood and found family.
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Sruthi Ganapathy Raman
Writer and Film Critic
A writer and critic who has been covering films from South India for the past eight years.
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The Chiranjeevi-Anil Ravipudi film has crossed ₹165 crores India nett, while the Naveen Polishetty film has raked in over ₹36 crores domestically.
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‘Anaganaga Oka Raju’ Movie Review: Naveen Polishetty Keeps The Laughs Coming
A light hand at writing and a hilarious Naveen Polishetty largely carry this film through a slippery second half.
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‘Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu’ Movie Review: A Fun Chiranjeevi Navigates A Trite Marriage Drama
Anil Ravipudi directs Chiranjeevi and Nayanthara in a drama that lets its lead star have unbridled fun—often against the backdrop of an antiquated marriage portrait
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‘The Raja Saab’ Movie Review: Prabhas In A Haunting Misfire
Maruthi directs Prabhas in a horror comedy that is terrifyingly clichéd and over-the-top.
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‘Dhandoraa’ Movie Review: Telugu Social Drama Finds Its Footing Over Time
Murali Kanth Devasoth centres an anti-caste drama around themes of dignity in death.
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The Best Kannada Film Performances of 2025
From a vengeful princess to romantic late bloomer, Kannada cinema gave us a few unforgettable characters this year.
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Upendra and Shiva Rajkumar add freshness to a genre experiment that ultimately falls flat
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The Five Best Telugu Film Performances of 2025
The year was earmarked with big-ticket releases, but it’s the smaller, intimate dramas that showed up with surprising depth in the performances
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Kannada Cinema in 2025: A Step Forward, Barely
Even as we're awaiting the releases of 'Mark' and '45', Kannada cinema saw unexpected wins this year — yet the industry remains wary of celebrating too soon.
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Kichcha Sudeep Interview on 'Mark': ‘Nothing Is Forever — and That Clarity Doesn’t Scare Me'
The Kannada film star on his upcoming film 'Mark,' the clarity that comes with knowing an actor’s shelf life, and whether he’d ever reprise the iconic antagonist from 'Eega'.
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Varun Sandesh On Turning Mad Scientist In ‘Nayanam’ and The Perpetual Nostalgia of ‘Happy Days’
The actor will next be seen as an ophthalmologist who loves to peep into people’s lives in ‘Nayanam’
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‘Angammal’ Movie Review: A Sari Blouse Becomes the Thread for a Stunning Portrait of Motherhood
Geetha Kailasam headlines this beautifully rich portrait of a woman who struggles to make sense of the changing times and her children.
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Filmmaker Mahesh Babu P speaks about mounting a story of failure and hope in his latest feel-good Telugu drama, and why box-office collections matter.
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