World Hindi Day honours the global reach of Hindi, and few embody this better than four distinguished South Indian writers who transcended regional languages to excel in Hindi. Bala Shauri Reddy, Dr N ...

Several dubbed south Indian films have struck a popular chord with Hindi-speaking audiences and found box-office success in the past. Yet, makers of recent mid-budget Tamil, Telugu, or Malayalam ...

South Indians do not want to be isolated because they do not know Hindi, Supreme Court judge B.V. Nagarathna said on Wednesday (December 3, 2025). Responding to a question on the use of Hindi in the ...

Actor Gulshan Devaiah, who has received praise for portraying the menacing King Kulashekhara in Rishab Shetty's Kantara Chapter 1, has weighed in on the raging debate the South vs Bollywood in an ...

From Patna to prime-time TV, South Indian films are no longer restricting their promotions to their home turf. Big-budget productions and even mid-scale films are aggressively chasing Hindi-speaking ...

An obsessive film watcher, a hardcore pop culture nerd, an ardent dog lover, a big foodie and a compulsive daydreamer who ideates, writes, manages and consumes entertainment. A self-proclaimed ...

At WAVES Summit 2025, Karan Johar rejected the North vs South cinema debate, calling for unity in Indian cinema. Vijay Deverakonda echoed this, highlighting collaboration’s success with films like ...

Once confined to one-off sensations like Pushpa, South Indian movies are now drawing huge audiences in the Hindi heartland, as reflected in their box office numbers. From Mohanlal's recent big-budget ...

New Delhi, India – Addressing a rally in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu last weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mocked leaders from the state government of the regional Dravida Munnetra ...

The number of students learning Hindi at the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha (DBHPS) centres across South India declined sharply just a year before the pandemic and has not rebounded to previous ...

Several north Indian states have refrained from teaching any south Indian language as the third language in schools, the government has informed Parliament, reinforcing concerns raised by Tamil Nadu ...

Popular Hindi actor Sunny Deol is currently starring in the Hindi film “Jatt.” The movie features Regina Cassandra, Randeep Hooda, Ramya Krishnan, Jagapathi Babu, and others. It is directed by Telugu ...