Kangana Ranaut starts shooting for Jayalalithaa biopic, Thalaivi

The actress underwent Bharatanatyam classes, learnt Tamil and even spent hours in the prosthetic makeup sessions

Hyderabad's Neha Khaitan talks about bringing together bharatnatyam, carnatic music and folk tales in her next performance

The 90-minute performance will be a mix of dance and music — used as a storytelling method to narrate message-oriented tales.

Doctor, sailor, medical clown and now fitness entrepreneur: Rohini Rau is a woman with no limits 

Why wait for wind beneath your sails when you can grow wings?

Author Arya Rajam talks about her journey, future and relationship with mother, acclaimed dancer Anita Ratnam

Daughter of famed danseuse Anita Ratnam, Arya first created ripples when she published her book Blood, Sweat and Tears in 2013.

 Gender activist and artiste Diniz Sanchez is in Kochi for a classical dance workshop

Classical dance, science and video games come together in Antariksha Sanchar, a fantasy Bharatanatyam opera

The production makes its Bengaluru premiere 

The Masala Klub from Taj West End, Bengaluru is hosting a pop-up in Chennai that starts today

Don't miss the delicious tamarind sorbet, with tamarind from a tree that has been standing at the West End for the last 130 years

‘With my writer's hat, I get to live many lives’: Author Koral Dasgupta

Author Koral Dasgupta on belonging to the imaginary world, the inspiration behind Summer Holidays and the theme of her next book

Bharatanatyam exponent Priya Venkataraman urges adult women to take up dance again

Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer Priya Venkataraman is asking her adult students to take up bharatanatyam as a second innings in life.

Watch Gundica Dance Festival at the Brigade Parade Ground till July 11

You can expect to see the performances by famous dance artistes like Dona Ganguly, Debjani Chatterjee and others 

The Credo of a Dancer archival exhibition at DakshinaChitra

The exhibition will be inaugurated on July 6 with a bharatanatyam performance by Aniruddha Knight, grandson of Balasaraswati.

Chennai’s Theatrekaran gives the Ramayana a different take in their play, Asuras

With a script inspired by the 12th-century epic Kamba Ramayanam, written by the Tamil poet Kambar, Asuras is the poetic journey of Rama and his victory against the demonic powers

From the battlefield: Duryodhana is the man of the hour in Theatre Nisha’s Urubhangam

Shakthi Ramani places the spotlight on Duryodhana in her directorial debut for Theatre Nisha

This Bengaluru-based transgender entrepreneur provides her community a living through her bridal studio

The rental studio offers occasion wear for men, women and kids

Hyderabad's dancer Pramod Kumar Reddy is set to stage his production themed around friendship and mythology

The 95-minute ballet takes three mythological characters known for their values in friendship.