Cine News Digest – 13 Dec 2025
Mani Ratnam’s next film After the lukewarm response to his last directorial – Kamal Haasan’s Thug Life – Mani Ratnam is to return to direction with an emotional action thriller with Vijay Sethupathi set to play the lead role. Shooting for this film will begin in January and the film is set for release in […]
Spoiler-free Review of “Kaantha”
Dulquer Salman’s latest dual language film Kaantha was first rumoured to be a biopic on Tamil cinema’s first superstar, M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar. The film is, however, a fictional account set against the backdrop of Tamil cinema as it neared its golden period. Dulquer Salman plays the hugely successful actor, T.K. Mahadevan who is estranged from […]
TOP 20 Tamil Songs for week ending 12 Dec 2025
This Week Title Film/Album Singer/s Lyric Music Last Week 1 Thooral Megangalil YOLO Haricharan & Vandana Srinivasan Satheeskanth Thambiretnam Sagishna Xavier 2 2 Unakulley Kadavaul Undu Bomb K.S. Chithra, Gayathri, Sarasruthi, Adya and Nasreen Jayra D. Imman 4 3 Cheenikallu Bison Vijay Yesudas & Chinmayi Sripada Nari Selvaraj Nivas K Prasanna 1 4 Ennai Vittu […]
TOP 20 TAMIL Songs for week ending 05 Dec 2025
This Week Title Film/Album Singer/s Lyric Music Last Week 1 Cheenikallu Bison Vijay Yesudas & Chinmayi Sripada Nari Selvaraj Nivas K Prasanna 2 2 Thooral Megangalil YOLO Haricharan & Vandana Srinivasan Satheeskanth Thambiretnam Sagishna Xavier 3 3 Pora Pokula Independent Yatheeshwar Raja Vishnu Edavan Yatheeshwar Raja 5 4 Unakulley Kadavaul Undu Bomb K.S. Chithra, Gayathri, […]
Tamil Cinema loses another Legend
M. Saravanan, the iconic film producer who was the driving force in AVM Productions and AVM Studios, passed away in the early hours of this morning – Thursday, 04 December. Saravanan (86) had several health issues and was unable to walk for the last two years. His remains will be available for public viewing until […]
TOP 20 TAMIL Songs for week ending 28 Nov 2025
This Week Title Film/Album Singer/s Lyric Music Last Week 1 Kannamma Retta Thala Dhanush Sam CS Sam CS 2 2 Cheenikallu Bison Vijay Yesudas & Chinmayi Sripada Nari Selvaraj Nivas K Prasanna 5 3 Thooral Megangalil YOLO Haricharan & Vandana Srinivasan Satheeskanth Thambiretnam Sagishna Xavier 3 4 Thaene Sendhaene Kiss Sathish Rahul Jen Martin 1 […]
Unspinning the news on Rajinikanth’s 173rd film
Rajinikanth’s 173rd film has been dominating film news headlines since its announcement in September this year. The project brought together Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth after 46 years. With both superstars enjoying huge fame and fanatical followings, there are many among the current generation of audiences that would not know that the two careers were intertwined […]
Remembering the Legendary Gemini Ganesan
Ramasamy Ganesan was born in Pudhukottai on 17 November 1920. He got a job as an assistant in Gemini studios and soon became known as Gemini Ganesan. The name stayed with him after his introduction to films through the film Miss Malini. He was one of the few graduates to enter the film industry at […]
“Thenisai Thendral” Deva – The man who overcame all odds to achieve success.
The introduction of AR Rahman in 1992 took the music world by storm and his debut album, Roja, was a runaway hit but Roja was not the number 1 selling album for 1992, nor was its background score much talked about – Both these accolades belong to music composer Deva for his work on Rajinikanth’s […]
TOP 20 Tamil Songs for week ending 21 Nov 2025
This Week Title Film/Album Singer/s Lyric Music Last Week 1 Thaene Sendhaene Kiss Sathish Rahul Jen Martin 2 2 Kannamma Retta Thala Dhanush Sam CS Sam CS 5 3 Thooral Megangalil YOLO Haricharan & Vandana Srinivasan Satheeskanth Thambiretnam Sagishna Xavier 7 4 Mudhal Mazhaithuli YOLO SG.V. Prakash Kumar & Priyanka NK Muthamil Sagishna Xavier 1 […]