Bhooth Bangla, featuring Akshay Kumar in the lead role, has emerged as a notable success in both the Indian and international box office markets. This film marks a significant turnaround for Kumar, who has faced a challenging period with eight consecutive box office failures. The horror-comedy has not only revitalized his career but has also…
Zee TV further cements its position as India’s most-loved entertainment channel in the Hindi GEC space with two of its fiction shows Vasudha and Ganga Mai Ki Betiyan figuring in the top-rated shows on television. While Vasudha continues to remain at the No. 1 position for the second consecutive week with a TVR of 2.0,…
3 min readKochiMay 19, 2026 09:30 AM IST Although Jyotika made her acting debut in Bollywood with director Priyadarshan’s Doli Saja Ke Rakhna (1998), a remake of the Malayalam film Aniyathipraavu (1997), it was the Tamil film industry that catapulted her to stardom, offering her a wide range of characters. A five-time recipient of the…
MUMBAI: India’s appetite for short-form content just got a serious backer. Vertigo TV, a digital platform specialising in vertical microdramas, has announced a strategic collaboration with Balaji Studios, a division of Balaji Telefilms, to produce a new slate of Hindi vertical microdramas for mobile-first audiences. It is one of the first large-scale initiatives in India…
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Mumbai: The Ormax Bollywood Audience Report (TOBAR) 2026 is a new research report provides in-depth profiling of Hindi theatrical audiences in India, based on a research conducted among 2,000 theatregoers in India, representing the 28.5 million market of regular Hindi cinema audiences (15+ urban) 1. 57% of the Hindi box office comes from audiences below…
Indian Consul General in Melbourne Anish Rajan has announced the opening of a larger VFS Global centre in Melbourne, designed to improve access to consular services for the Indian diaspora across Victoria. The new facility, set to open soon on St Kilda Road, will function as a centre offering a wide range of services, including…
Filmmaker Indira Dhar (Photo: ETV Bharat) Hyderabad: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Indira Dhar has returned to the Cannes Film Festival for the third consecutive year. This year, the director launched her next Hindi film, A Tale of Two Women, which stars Rituparna Sengupta and Chhaya Kadam in key roles. Alongside the new project, Dhar also took forward…
The CBSE’s decision to make two Indian languages compulsory for Classes 9 and 10 from July 2026 has sparked a major controversy, especially over its implementation in the middle of the academic session and fears of Hindi imposition in southern states. The Federal spoke to Professor JS Rajput, former director of NCERT and veteran educationist,…
