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Scour the internet and you will find his name attached to some of the biggest Tamil & Hindi remixes. Dr. Srimix released his 4th album earlier this year. “SRMX 0400 – The Method” features 15 beautifully captured videos released (1 video a week) exclusively through Bollyshake, a leading South Asian dance platform. Born in California, […]

On Monday night the Royal family hosted a glamorous reception to mark the launch of “UK-India 2017” at Buckingham Palace. The event marks the beginning of a year-long series of events in the UK & India, celebrating the bond between the two countries and marking 70 years of India’s independence from Great Britain. Attending the function were […]

Buckingham Palace was last night lit up for the launch of #UKIndia2017, the year of culture. In the centre of the vibrant design is a peacock, the national bird of India, surrounded by elements of India’s culture projected onto the façade of the iconic London Landmark. 2017 will see an incredible year-long programme of cultural events and activities in India […]

Radheyan Simonpillai

If one were to do a word association game with the words “cinema” or “movies”, some of the responses might include “popcorn”, “date night”, “entertainment”, or “leisure”. Something along those lines. But what it most likely wouldn’t include, is something like “job”, “hard work”, or “career”. At least for the majority. But not for Radheyan […]

A big congratulations to Veeraj Lutchman. The Tamil Londoner has made it to the second stage of the BBC’s brand-new talent show “Let it Shine”, securing 16 stars out of 20 from the judges Gary Barlow, Danni Minogue, Martin Kemp and Amber Riley during the audition stage. 37-year-old singer, song-writer and musician Veeraj first came […]

Since the introduction of “Miss America” in 1921, the concept and institution of beauty pageants have polarised minds and set in motion discussions on beauty standards, objectification of women, and women’s rights. On one hand, critics have raised concerns about it being little more than an excuse to leer at scantily-clad women, for promoting a European […]

Congratulations to 20-year-old Anjelli Wignakumar from London who last night competed in the “Category Finals” of BBC Young Dancer 2017. Dancers aged 16-21 from across the UK were selected through two preliminary rounds to compete in four Category Finals: Ballet, Contemporary, South Asian Dance and Street Dance. Anjelli performed her Bharathanatyam dance routines accompanied by a […]

MURANEE is the beautiful real life story of a young British Tamil couple. The wedding film cum short film directed by Jenson Singaragah will leave you wondering why this was never made into a full length feature film! The 20 minute film has crossed the 1 million view mark on youtube within a few months, […]

It looks like Canada, in particular Toronto is leading the way in propagating the Tamil cultural identity with numerous ground breaking projects that have surfaced only in the last few years. The annual Tamil street festival known as “Tamil Fest” which takes place in the height of summer and now in its third year attracts […]

This is Balan Kashmir’s official music video for “Start that Thiruvizha” released through Sony Music South. Internationally known amongst the Tamil hip hop community, the Malaysian rapper hailing from Klang was featured earlier this year on Anirudh Ravichander’s “Hola Amigo” from the Kollywood (Tamil cinema) film “Rum”. Its wonderful to see another Tamil independent song […]