It was a joyous occasion for ISAMRA (Indian Singers And Musicians Rights Association) recently as they announced that they have distributed Rs. 100 crore in royalties to 26,000 singers and musicians.

What’s Good: Naveen Polishetty’s electric energy that could literally power a small town, and a script that knows exactly when to stop joking. What’s Bad: A script that does not know how to talk ...

The Telugu comedy-drama Anaganaga Oka Raju, starring Naveen Polishetty and Meenakshi Chaudhary, is set to arrive on OTT soon. The film, which released in theatres on January 14, 2026, during Makar ...

Anaganaga Oka Raju, Naveen Polishetty's latest movie, has become one of the major hits of the Sankranti 2026 season. There were a lot of other huge Christmas movies coming out at the same time as this ...

Two years after the urban romcom Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty(2023), actor-screenwriter Naveen Polishetty returns with another film laced with humour. In contrast to the restraint he showed in that film, ...

One of the bonuses of making "Song Sung Blue" filled with Neil Diamond songs is how astonishingly prolific the globally beloved singer-songwriter was during his five decades of recording and ...

V. Mallikarjun, one of the most familiar voices in contemporary Telugu literature, is set to return to fiction after a five-year gap with his new novel Oka Endakalapu Madhyanam, scheduled for release ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

Our staff's favorite songs from the past year of hits and deeper cuts. On the charts, 2025 was a year that often felt like flipping TV channels to find a new episode to watch and coming across nothing ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...