CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March

Here is our weekly roundup copy, including news, features, interviews, and reviews, to keep you up to date with all things cinema
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
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On the third week of March, netizens engaged in plenty of discourse around a new Netflix series that talks about the complexities of growing up and parenting, among other topics. The week also saw a renowned composer meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi following his significant achievement in the field of music, and a notable actor-politician getting honoured at the British parliament building. Meanwhile, a major Hindi film and a pan-India film finally locked their release dates. Amid all this, a highly-anticipated film is all set to be the first from Malayalam cinema to get an IMAX release.

Did you miss out on any big news from Indian or international cinema this week? If so, here is our weekly roundup copy, including news, features, interviews, and reviews, to keep you up to date with all things cinema.

Here is our last Cinema Without Borders column on the much-discussed Netflix miniseries Adolescence.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Cinema Without Borders: The kids are not alright—Adolescence
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Jared Padalecki says he's jumped into The Boys blind: "I don't know a whole lot about it"
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Julia Stiles recalls feeling "slimy" during reshoots for Harvey Weinstein's film
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Conan O’Brien to host Academy Awards again next year
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
The Idolmaker remake in the works
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's Reminders of Him to star Maika Monroe
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Stephen King's Cujo remake circling Darren Aronofsky to direct
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Narcos creator Chris Brancato's next crime series set to go on floors
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Ryan Reynolds rubbishes Justin Baldoni's lawsuit: can’t sue over ‘hurt feelings’

After his highly anticipated return in last week's episode of Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again as Frank Castle, Jon Bernthal talks about his experience.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Jon Bernthal on his return as The Punisher: 'Let's see if there's a real openness and a hunger to let Frank be what Frank is'
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
New Big Bang Theory spinoff centred around a major supporting character
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Coco sequel in development at Disney

Mikey Madison received the Oscar for Best Actress for her leading performance in Anora. Here is how she remembers joining the film:

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Mikey Madison recalls being cast in Anora: I felt like the luckiest actor in the world
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Werner Herzog to direct, narrate The Twilight World
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Apple TV+ drama Severance is renewed for Season 3
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Bella Ramsey on autism diagnosis during The Last Of Us filming: I've experienced painful hyperawareness of people's micro-expressions

This week, the team at Cinema Express, reviewed Snow White and The Electric State.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Snow White Movie Review: A visually dazzling fairytale that lacks magic
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
The Electric State Movie Review: A mix of genres that never gets going
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Veteran actor Bindu Ghosh passes away
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
GV Prakash croons and Vishnu Edavan pens 'OG Sambavam' from Ajith Kumar's Good Bad Ugly
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Rajinikanth's Coolie wraps filming

After the debut of his symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra, Ilaiyaraaja visited the prime minister of India.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Ilaiyaraaja visits PM Modi after his London symphony event
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
GV Prakash shares Vetrimaaran-Suriya's Vaadivaasal update

After 20 years, Vijay's Sachein returns to theatres.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Vijay's Sachein to re-release on this date

With SU Arun Kumar's Veera Dheera Sooran set to release in theatres on March 27, the film had a trailer launch:

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Veera Dheera Sooran Part 2 Trailer: The past haunts Vikram's Kaali in SU Arun Kumar's intense actioner
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Raghuvaran: A Star That Defied Time docufilm Teaser: Looking back at the career of Tamil cinema's iconic villain
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Adhik Ravichandran on Good Bad Ugly: I thought I was unfit to direct Ajith
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Daniel Balaji's last feature RPM motion poster out
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Trauma Movie Review: This medical mafia thriller lives up to its title
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Asthram Movie Review: This murder mystery loses steam by chasing its own tail
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Hrithik Roshan and Jr NTR’s War 2 release date announced
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Kangana Ranaut dismisses Oscars as ‘silly’, bats for National award for Emergency
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Hansal Mehta on Ibrahim Ali Khan and Khushi Kapoor being trolled for Nadaaniyan: Must be traumatising
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Karan Johar on trolling against Nadaaniyan: Respect critics but violent words are disturbing
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Anurag Kashyap praises Adolescence; states Netflix India will never make something like it: ‘Their only interest is increase in subscriptions'
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Shekhar Kapur calls out OTT platform for cutting Bandit Queen ‘beyond recognition'
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Salman Khan’s Sikandar to release in theatres on this date
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Ganesh Acharya says Bollywood stars don’t credit choreographers, praises Allu Arjun
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Aamir Khan reveals PK initially had an idea similar to Christopher Nolan’s Inception: ‘We weren’t happy with the film’
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Khakee: The Bengal Chapter Series Review: All trope, no thrill
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Director-actor AT Raghu passes away
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Prabhas-Prashanth Neel’s Salaar returns to theaters
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Yash's ambitious project, Toxic set for a worldwide release in 2026
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Mayur Ambekallu: Bhaava Theera Yaana completing 25 days in theatres is no small feat
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
I dedicate 'Kanda Kanasa Roopa' from Vamana to all mothers: Shankar Raman
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Appu Taxi to pay tribute to Puneeth Rajkumar
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
We used to get shields after 25 weeks of release; now it's about 25 days: Ravichandran
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
American actor Kyle Paul on his filming for Yash's Toxic: I had the best experience
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Priyadarshi starrer Court emerges as a big box office hit
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
LYF - Love Your Father to release on April 4
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
SS Thaman: We decided to scrap and re-compose songs for The Raja Saab
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Nag Ashwin: Prabhas will have more screen time in Kalki 2
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Adarsh Gourav on his Telugu debut: Feels like homecoming
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Rana Daggubati, Vijay Deverakonda, among others, booked for promoting betting apps
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Rana Daggubati and Vijay Deverakonda offer clarification amid betting app controversy
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
British House of Commons honours Chiranjeevi
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Odela 2 gets a release date
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Red Lorry Film Festival: Old classics steal the show on opening day
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Tuk Tuk movie review: A gentle narrative about liberation and self-redemption
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Pelli Kani Prasad review: A goofy comedy that leans too much on memes
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Kaalamega Karigindhi movie review: An exhaustingly poetic take on first love
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Mammootty’s PR team denies cancer rumours, confirms he is healthy
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light wins Best Film at the Asian Film Awards
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Jakes Bejoy turns singer for Empuraan
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Lyricist Mankombu Gopalakrishnan passes away
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Abhilasham gets a release date, trailer out
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Prithviraj on Amitabh Bachchan, Mammootty and Mohanlal: Self-doubt and nervous energy make them great
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
L2: Empuraan to be the first Malayalam film to release on IMAX
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
L2: Empuraan Trailer: Mohanlal returns in this high-octane extravaganza
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Mohanlal's L2: Empuraan breaks hourly pre-sale records, surpasses Vijay's Leo and Allu Arjun's Pushpa 2
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Basil Joseph to debut in Tamil with Parasakthi

Seema Biswas talked to CE about her role in the upcoming Tamil series Om Kali Jai Kali, her renowned characters, acting in plays versus films and web series, typecasting in Indian cinema, her Bengali comeback, and more.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Seema Biswas: I thought Bandit Queen would be my last film

Director Arun Prabu, who is currently working on Shakthi Thirumagan, discussed with CE crafting mainstream political films, why Vijay Antony was the perfect fit for the film, and more.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Arun Prabu: All my protagonists are rebellious in some way

Actor Raghu Ram talked to CE about his role in Good Bad Ugly, working with Ajith Kumar, the kind of roles he wants to explore as an actor going forward, and more.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Raghu Ram: My role in Good Bad Ugly is wild, loud, and deeply negative

Kabir Khan discussed Setara, his segment in the anthology My Melbourne, why he thinks Chandu Champion underperformed at the box office, the changing nature of cinema in the post-Covid era, and more.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Kabir Khan: I can’t make films without politics

Raj Shekhar reflected on his process, the impact of Instagram reels on music, whether he thinks of actors while writing and more.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Lyricist Raj Shekhar: A lot of times we are told not to use certain words in songs

Filmmaker Aditya Kripalani talked to us about his latest film, I Am Not An Actor, working with Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and what he believes Hindi cinema needs to do to overcome its content slump.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Aditya Kripalani: Cinema is a religion, big screen is its temple

Actor Saptagiri talked about his film, Pelli Kani Prasad, the film’s comedic potential, and directors Maruti, Anil Ravipudi and Producer Sirish’s reactions to the film.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Saptagiri: I was laughing throughout Pelli Kani Prasad script narration

Debutant filmmaker Singara Mohan talks about his big aim with making a film like Kaalamega Karigindhi..?, the role of cinema in saving poetry, and why he is not a big fan of on-screen violence.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Singara Mohan: Poetic cinema can be as impactful as a massy movie

Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal director Sharan Venugopal discussed his debut feature, its bold themes, narrative ambiguity, why films should challenge conventions and more.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal director Sharan Venugopal: The discomfort around intimate scenes was intentional

Actor Harshika Poonacha, who is making her directorial debut with a crime thriller that will star Kishore along with Ugramm Manju and Sudhi in the lead cast, talked to CE.

CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Harshika Poonacha: Chi: Soujanya not based on a specific incident, applies universally
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
Asif Ali and Jis Joy team up
CE's Weekly Digest: Your essential read for the third week of March
The Electric State Movie Review: A mix of genres that never gets going

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