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Rajinikanth: The Gate That Would Not Stay Shut
Rajinikanth, a bus conductor from Bangalore, and the country that needed him By Nine145 A poor man with a quick wrist and a short temper is allowed, for…
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Netflix cuts about 1,000 jobs: why a growing streaming company is reducing its workforce
The story Netflix is eliminating about 1,000 jobs, equivalent to roughly 6% of its global workforce, in its largest round of reductions since 2022. The decision was communicated…
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Jailer 2 reaches cinemas—but its Hindi release exposes the battle between multiplexes and streaming
The story Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 opened worldwide on 15 October with the scale expected of a major Tamil release: early shows, crowded theatres, a multilingual campaign and intense…
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Why ‘Gandhi’ Remains the Greatest Political Biopic
Richard Attenborough’s film brings together an extraordinary political life, the visible courage of non-violence and the intimacy of a searching performance. Its eight Oscars recognise that achievement; its…
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Gandhi and Lincoln: When Great Lives Find Their Cinematic Voice
Historical stature belongs to the life. A powerful biographical film makes the choices behind that stature accessible to audiences across generations. A man walks towards the sea. Another…
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‘Gandhi’: How Cinema Carried Bapu’s Message Across Borders
Attenborough’s film gave an already influential life a new visual language, bringing its moral and political questions within the emotional reach of audiences. The men walk forward knowing…
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Making ‘Gandhi’: The Twenty Years Behind a Cinematic Epic
A proposal in London, years of financial uncertainty and a remarkable collaboration eventually brought Richard Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ to the screen. The funeral comes first. A nation moves behind…
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Solar Eclipse 2026 and India: Why the 12 August Total Eclipse Is Not Visible Here, Sutak Rules and When India Sees the Next One
Nine145 Explainer A total solar eclipse is sweeping across parts of the Northern Hemisphere on 12 August 2026, producing complete darkness along a narrow path through Greenland, Iceland, northern…
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Spider-Man’s $932 Million Opening Rewrites the Global Box-Office Record Book
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has delivered a theatrical result that would represent a successful lifetime run for most major films—in a single opening weekend. Sony’s initial Sunday estimate placed…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Breaks Opening-Day Record as Global Search Interest Surges
Tom Holland’s new Spider-Man film has overtaken Avengers: Endgame in nominal opening-day revenue—but not after adjusting for inflation Spider-Man: Brand New Day has recorded an estimated $168 million opening day…
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Raktanchal Season 3 Review: A Gripping Gangland Drama Trapped Inside the Same Old Cycle of Revenge and Power
Raktanchal Season 3 remains entertaining, violent and sufficiently engaging, but the Amazon MX Player crime thriller repeatedly sacrifices political credibility, narrative scale and institutional logic to keep an…
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The Ceilings of Hubris: Exhuming the Deep-Focus Incarceration of Citizen Kane
How Orson Welles and Gregg Toland weaponised the scopic drive, spatial tyranny, and anachronic acoustic semiotics to dismantle linear Hollywood narrative. The sled burns. With it, the illusion…
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