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R. Suryaprakash, with M.R. Gopinath on the violin and K. Balaji on the mridangam | Photo Credit: M. SRINATH A few compositions from Gopalakrishna Bharathi’s opera Nandanar Charitram, which…

A still from ‘Fire in the Mountains’ An evocative piece of social drama hem lined with protest art, director Ajitpal Singh’s debut feature paints a keenly observed portrait of a family…

Express News Service Recently, during a casual conversation with an actor, we reflected on how some folks in Kerala, no matter what they have against each other, will…

A.S. Murali with A.G. Venkatasubramaniam (violin); Tirucherai Kaushik on the mridangam and Madipakkam Murali on the ghatam. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A.S. Murali’s sonorous voice,…

A forensic quality marks a suite of perplexing color photographs made by Jo Ann Callis in the late 1970s but not printed until the last few years.Rather than evidence uncovered, however, as…

The late lyricist was one of the most prolific and versatile wordsmith in Malayalam music, writing film songs, devotionals and theatre songs Bichu Thirumala (B Sivasankaran Nair) never…

“We didn’t want to make music about a superhero,” Miyashiro said. Instead, he wanted to depict what it’s like to absorb a particular environment while growing up, citing Kendrick Lamar’s…

Norweigian filmmaker Mona Fastvold’s doomed love affair is soft, gentle and plays out like an audio-visual book of a person rummaging through memories and the sadness that comes with it…