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Khaleej Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Khaleej Times
Kamal Haasan pens heartfelt birthday message to 'Thug Life' director Mani Ratnam
Veteran Indian actor and filmmaker Kamal Haasan marked director Mani Ratnam's birthday with an emotional message that celebrated their decades-long cinematic partnership. The note, shared publicly, struck a deeply personal tone, reflecting on their journey from the iconic Nayakan to their much-anticipated upcoming film Thug Life. "Happy Birthday, Mani Ratnam," Haasan wrote, adding, "From Nayakan to Thug Life, we've journeyed through time together -- as colleagues, family, co-dreamers, and above all, as lifelong students of cinema," he wrote on X. He went on to praise Ratnam not only for his creative brilliance but for being a guiding presence throughout the years. "Through every chapter, your presence has been a source of strength -- a mind I turn to in moments of doubt, and a soul deeply attuned to the language of film like few others. May your stories keep unfolding, for with every frame, your vision brings depth, beauty, and meaning to cinema," he wrote, signing off with, "Forever your friend, Kamal Haasan." Happy Birthday, Mani Ratnam. From Nayakan to Thug Life, weâ��ve journeyed through time together â�� as colleagues, family, co-dreamers, and above all, as lifelong students of cinema. Through every chapter, your presence has been a source of strength â�� a mind I turn to in moments ofâ�¦ — Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) June 2, 2025 Haasan and Ratnam share one of the most revered collaborations in Indian cinema. Their first and most celebrated partnership came in 1987 with Nayakan, a Tamil crime drama loosely inspired by the life of underworld don Varadarajan Mudaliar. The film not only became a critical and commercial success but was also India's official entry to the Academy Awards that year. It remains a landmark in Indian filmmaking. Now, 37 years later, the duo is reuniting for Thug Life, a high-profile gangster drama expected to hit screens on June 5. The film features Haasan in a central role alongside actor Silambarasan TR.
CBC
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Tate McRae earns her first No. 1 hit with Morgan Wallen duet
Pop star Tate McRae has scored her first No. 1 song with What I Want, a duet with country singer Morgan Wallen from his recent album, I'm the Problem. McRae's highest-charting single prior to the song was Greedy, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 back in January 2024. The song marks Wallen's fourth No. 1 on the chart, and I'm the Problem also topped the Billboard 200. He also made history by breaking the record for the most songs to ever chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in a single week, with 37 songs. LISTEN | Morgan Wallen and Tate McRae's duet, What I Want: The collaboration between the two artists has not been without controversy, as McRae's fans were upset that she was choosing to work with the country star, who used a racist slur in 2021 and was arrested in 2024 for throwing a chair off of a roof. USA Today reported that McRae's fans expressed their disappointment in the comments of her Instagram post on April 8, before the song's release. "Girl don't do this collab ok I love you," wrote @grazihaas, while fan @missajisha commented, "Please Tate stand up!!! Don't do this collab baby girl! You're SO CLOSE!!! This will not end well!!!!!" Another fan, @offdaines, wrote: "Tate…really? That man?" Teen Vogue also shared a piece about the song titled "Tate McRae fans are pissed about her new song with Morgan Wallen," which included tweets such as "Tate McRae collabing with Morgan Wallen...... I'm actually so disappointed in her rn." WATCH | Music writers on Commotion discuss Wallen's album: Several radio stations including SiriusXM and iHeartRadio reacted to Wallen using the racial slur in 2021 by removing Wallen's music from rotation. His record label also temporarily suspended his recording contract. Wallen later apologized on Good Morning America for his use of the racial slur after the video of him saying it was publicized. Black country stars such as Darius Rucker have since forgiven Wallen, while others such as Mickey Guyton faced cyberbullying for condemning him. In December 2024, Wallen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment. He is under supervised probation for two years. McRae is currently on tour promoting her album So Close to What, which was released in February and went to No. 1. She will return to Canada in August for shows in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.
Daily Mail
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The true nature of Morgan Wallen and Tate McRae's controversial relationship... and her telling response to THOSE closet Republican rumors, revealed by insiders
Usually, when a pop star releases new music, their fans are ecstatic. But when singer Tate McRae, 21, dropped her latest single, What I Want, on Friday, the reaction was decidedly sour - and strangely political. The outpouring of hate had little to do with the track itself. Instead, the outrage was focused on the man with whom McRae had collaborated: Country music superstar Morgan Wallen, 32.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tate McRae's duet with Morgan Wallen is finally here. How the controversial country-pop track is sitting with their respective fan bases.
Morgan Wallen has released his new album, I'm the Problem, which features his controversial duet 'What I Want' with up-and-coming pop girl Tate McRae. The song, released on Friday, has garnered criticism from McRae's fans who have questioned her decision to work with the country singer, given his contentious reputation. 'Tate McRae, if you're going to put your neck out and do a collab, maybe we could at least make it interesting,' Zachary, a content creator known as the 'Swiftologist,' said on TikTok. 'It's a rude interruption into what is otherwise a fantastic victory summer for Miss McRae.' With a career rife with controversy, Wallen has developed a reputation as country music's bad boy. The 32-year-old singer pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment in 2024, was suspended by his record label after footage of him using a racial slur surfaced in 2021, and was accused of violating COVID-19 protocols in 2020. The singer was also previously charged with driving under the influence in Nashville in 2016, though his case was ultimately dismissed. Wallen most recently drew backlash in March, when he was seen abruptly walking off the Saturday Night Live stage. At the end of the episode, which boasted Anora star Mikey Madison as its host, Wallen is seen hugging Madison and leaving the stage, while the rest of the cast remains as the credits roll. When asked about the moment, Wallen denied any ill will between him and the late-night sketch show. 'I was just ready to go home. I'd been there all week,' the country singer told Sundae Conversation host Caleb Pressley in May. While McRae's decision to team up with Wallen may seem surprising, the 21-year-old singer appears to be a fan of Wallen's music, having performed a rendition of his Post Malone duet, 'I Had Some Help,' ahead of one of her shows in July 2024. 'Pop girlies no longer get to play the 'I didn't know' card in 2025,' a TikTok creator named Kimberly said. 'In 2025, collaborating with someone like Morgan Wallen is not just a creative decision. It is literally a calculated brand alignment.' McRae has already reached several career highs this year: She released her latest album, So Close to What, in February, nabbed her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, is currently on her Miss Possessive world tour and unveiled her Paper Magazine cover story on Wednesday. On X, a user with the handle @ChnRstrntKng wrote, 'I'm a Tate McRae fan and a Morgan Wallen hater so I'm going to have to think long and hard about whether or not I ever want to listen to this song.' Another X user wrote, 'The worst girl you know is so excited about the Morgan wallen Tate McRae collab.' A TikTok creator known as Gray revealed that the news of McRae's duet with Wallen was enough reason to stop supporting her. 'I just cannot get past that,' said Gray. 'If she's collabing with Morgan Wallen? Not a main pop girl.' Wallen fans, meanwhile, are welcoming the collaboration with open arms. Even some McRae fans, while seemingly in the minority, are impressed by the track. 'Unpopular Opinion: I'm OBSESSED with this collab!!!' wrote a TikToker named Ava. Taylor Faith, another content creator, declared, 'Not to be dramatic but this Morgan Wallen x Tate McRae collab just rewired my brain chemistry.' Despite his controversies, the country singer still appears to be beloved within his genre and among his fans. He's also quick to sing his collaborator's praises. Wallen spoke highly of McRae in the days leading up to his album's release, calling his decision to work with the 'Sports Car' singer a 'no-brainer.' 'She was an absolute pleasure to work with on the feature. She did everything very timely,' he told Holler. 'We didn't get to work on it in the studio together, but the song wasn't originally written for her in mind. It was written in a [male] key, technically, and she just absolutely crushed every single part of the song. I'm fired up for people to hear it!'
Scoop
15-05-2025
- Business
- Scoop
AWS And Boomi Announce Strategic AI And SAP Integration Partnership
Press Release – Boomi Our Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS comes at a critical inflection point where enterprise AI adoption requires a delicate balance between innovation and governance, said Steve Lucas, Chairman and CEO at Boomi. Boomi™, the leader in AI-driven automation, today announced a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help customers build, manage, monitor and govern generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents across enterprise operations. Additionally, the SCA will aim to help customers accelerate SAP migrations from on-premises to AWS. Enterprise organisations today struggle with fragmented AI agent management across multiple platforms and environments, incurring potential security risks and operational inefficiencies. As AI agent adoption accelerates, organisations need a trusted way to monitor, secure, and optimise their AI investments across their diverse technology landscape. By integrating Amazon Bedrock — a fully managed service for building and scaling generative AI applications, including access to the broadest selection of fully managed models from leading AI companies — with the Boomi Agent Control Tower, a centralised management solution for deploying, monitoring, and governing AI agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, customers can easily discover, build, and manage agents executing in their AWS accounts, while also maintaining visibility and control over agents running in other cloud provider or third-party environments. Through a single API, Amazon Bedrock provides a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI in mind, including support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between their data and AI-powered tools. MCP enables agents to effectively interpret and work with ERP data while complying with data governance and security requirements. 'Our Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS comes at a critical inflection point where enterprise AI adoption requires a delicate balance between innovation and governance,' said Steve Lucas, Chairman and CEO at Boomi. 'By integrating Amazon Bedrock's powerful generative AI capabilities with Boomi's Agent Control Tower, we're giving organisations unprecedented visibility and control across their entire AI ecosystem while simultaneously accelerating their critical SAP workload migrations to AWS. This partnership enables enterprises to confidently scale their AI initiatives with the security, compliance, and operational excellence their business demands.' 'As we've worked with thousands of customers adopting generative AI, one thing has become clear—enterprises need robust solutions to effectively deploy, monitor, and govern AI agents across their technology environments,' said Rahul Pathak, VP, Data & AI GTM at AWS. 'Amazon Bedrock provides customers with choice—the most comprehensive selection of foundation models and built-in governance capabilities. When you combine this with Boomi's Agent Control Tower providing centralised visibility and control, customers get what they need to innovate confidently while maintaining security and compliance. This collaboration brings together complementary strengths so customers can move quickly from proof-of-concept to production while meeting their business requirements.' 'As we expand AI-driven automation across our business, Boomi and AWS are essential partners enabling us to securely manage complexity and scale innovation,' said Amit Sinha, President & Co-Founder of WorkSpan. 'Utilising Boomi's integration capabilities combined with AWS infrastructure, we seamlessly connect diverse systems, accelerate SAP and AI initiatives, and maintain essential visibility and governance across our technology landscape—significantly enhancing our ability to innovate quickly and confidently.' The collaboration will introduce several strategic joint initiatives, including: Agent Control Tower – Integrated with Amazon Bedrock, Boomi's Agent Control Tower, part of Boomi Agentstudio (formerly Boomi AI Studio), provides holistic multi-cloud governance for AI agents. Organisations gain comprehensive visibility, proactive monitoring, and control of both Boomi-authored and third-party AI agents. This solution is critical for securely scaling AI initiatives across on-premises, public, or hybrid cloud environments, reducing complexity and ensuring enterprise-grade security and compliance. Enhanced Agent Designer – Boomi's low-code Agent Designer, now integrated with Amazon Q index, allows rapid creation of AI agents with deep contextual understanding and smarter model selection. Enterprises can build, train, and deploy intelligent agents that leverage Amazon Q index for improved relevance and performance—and then manage them at scale via Boomi's multi-platform Agent Control Tower. New Native AWS Connectors and Boomi for SAP – As part of its SCA with AWS, Boomi has introduced new native connectors for AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon DynamoDB, and the Amazon Selling Partner Appstore. These connectors enable seamless integration across AWS services, supporting use cases from serverless computing to generative AI and e-commerce. Also part of the broader SCA collaboration, Boomi for SAP provides SAP-certified native integration that simplifies and accelerates connectivity between SAP and non-SAP systems, reduces integration time, and supports cloud migration with modern ELT capabilities powered by the Rivery acquisition. Organisations can efficiently move SAP data into any AWS-powered data warehouse or data lake to enable real-time analytics and AI. Together, Boomi and AWS empower organisations to connect SAP to non-SAP applications, move data seamlessly to the cloud, and fuel AI and analytics initiatives—maximising the value of their technology investments. Boomi Validated as AWS Generative AI Competency Partner Boomi also announced it achieved the AWS Generative AI Competency – a specialisation that recognises Boomi as an AWS Partner that helps customers and the AWS Partner Network drive the advancement of services, tools, and infrastructure pivotal for implementing generative AI technologies. As of May 2025, this marks Boomi's fifth AWS Competency, demonstrating Boomi's leadership in building generative AI applications using AWS technologies such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q, and Amazon SageMaker. This recognition reflects Boomi's proven field expertise and technical best practices, enabling customers to innovate confidently with next-generation AI solutions at scale. About Boomi Boomi, the leader in AI-driven automation, helps organisations around the world automate and streamline critical processes to achieve business outcomes faster. Harnessing advanced AI capabilities, the Boomi Enterprise Platform seamlessly connects systems and manages data flows with API management, integration, data management, and AI orchestration in one comprehensive solution. With over 23,000 customers globally and a network of 800+ partners, Boomi is revolutionising the way enterprises of all sizes achieve business agility and operational excellence. Discover more at
