R. Madhavan to portray pioneering inventor GD Naidu in upcoming biopic GDN; trailer out!

The makers of GDN, the upcoming biopic on pioneering Indian inventor G.D. Naidu, have unveiled the film's trailer, offering audiences a first look at R. Madhavan in the lead role. The film is scheduled to release in theatres on July 17. The trailer introduces Madhavan as G.D. Naidu, widely regarded as one of India's most influential inventors and industrialists. It showcases the actor in a markedly different avatar as he steps into the life of the visionary known for his contributions to engineering and innovation. Over the years, R. Madhavan has built a career across multiple film industries, working in Tamil, Hindi and other language films. Known for portraying a wide variety of characters, the actor has consistently balanced commercial entertainers with performance-driven projects. With GDN, Madhavan takes on another biographical role, portraying a real-life figure whose work left a lasting impact on India's technological landscape. The trailer hints at the challenges, ...

Conclave review – Ralph Fiennes takes charge of tense papal election thriller

Toronto film festival: the actor leads a top-tier ensemble, including Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini, in an entertainingly juicy adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel

Like the easily devoured paperback it’s based on, pulpy papal thriller Conclave has a brisk, page-turning allure, filled with juicy intrigue and mystery, a beach read that would follow you back home after. We’ve become grimly accustomed to plot-heavy bestsellers such as this stretched out into indulgent 10-episode seasons of television (such as the recently misjudged re-adaptation of Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent on Apple TV+), a baggy over-extension of stories that demand a tighter grip.

So it’s a mercy of sorts to see All Quiet on the Western Front’s Edward Berger transform Robert Harris’s “unputdownable” pot-boiler into a brisk, contained feature instead, a two-hour escape to the Vatican that knows exactly when to drop us in and take us out. It’s a fairly dry set-up in theory but Harris and playwright Peter Straughan (who co-wrote 2011’s equally involving adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) have found humour and suspense in the fictionalised hunt for a new Pope, an election that propels a timely and tense political thriller, scheduled to be released in the US just days before a real one takes place.

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