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After his debut film Homecoming's success, Director Soumyajit Majumdar is currently working on Parvathy Baul's biopic. Notably, the director has confirmed an actress from the Hindi film industry playing Parvathy's character and is nearing the casting process's finalization. The biopic promises to shed light on her transformative journey and highlight her immeasurable contributions to Baul music.

It is a morning knock but is no less sinister than a midnight one as Dublin microbiologist Eilish Stack comes face to face with state's totalitarianism as powers that seek to interrogate her trade unionist husband Larry. It is in this way Paul Lynch, an Irish author begins the book ’Prophet Song’ in the backdrop of Dublin's descent into dystopia. The book just got the Booker Prize for this year.

The veteran Hollywood film director Martin Scorsese's life is apparently somewhat reminiscent of the great American dream of a new kid on the block overcoming odds and gaining material success, a humble background notwithstanding. But as one looks at the vast body of his works in celluloid one is left in no doubt that the man from the mean streets of Lower Manhattan, a New York suburb was not in pursuit of mere commercial triumph but something that far outlasts it- a place of honour in the hall of fame of world cinema.

Arguably, the most influential music band, The Beatles used their platform to spread love and peace in a troubled time. The last song of The Beatles remind the audience why the audience fell in love with the mop-topped boys from Liverpool.

Jon Fosse writes on silence. Even as critics split hair whether the author of the "unsayable" who pens his thoughts in Norwegian Nynorsk language is the right recipient of Nobel Prize for literature this year, his readers are enjoying a joyous laughter. But it is not a loud guffaw which expresses their happiness at their favourite author being awarded this coveted distinction. For it is in honour of Fosse who articulates the softly said and unsaid words.

Greece’s communists began the mid-twentieth century on the battlefield, moved from there to the prisons and then, if they were lucky, exile. The less fortunate found themselves in front of firing squads.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances is a quote which aptly encapsulates the histrionic talent of Michael John Gambon who passed away last week.. He lived up to this quote as the octogenarian will be best remembered for his performance in the role of Albus Dumbledore in a series of Harry Potter movies based on an seemingly unending fairy tale

James Joyce was a member of Ireland’s revolutionary generation. The author of Ulysses (1922) was born in 1882, the same year as Éamon de Valera, and three years after Patrick Pearse in 1879. The latter two figures proved to be instrumental in realizing a political revolution in Ireland between the years 1916 and 1923 that would see it gain effective national autonomy.

When you have an incredible face, an incredible figure and incredible talent, you really have it all. Film star Deepika Padukone works harder than anyone. She has inherited from her parents a lot of discipline.

Drone cameras at weddings and social events no longer make eyes pop up. But the day may not be far off when your favourite pizza will be delivered to you by a drone rather than the Swiggy rider, adding to the chaotic scenes on the roads as he has to negotiate all kinds of odds to beat the delivery deadline; for, any slippage means a cut in the money that goes into his pocket because pizza chains are promising not to charge customers if delivery is delayed beyond the promised time.