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Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Mahavatar Narsimha OTT release: Animated action blockbuster may premiere on this platform after its run in theatres
Mahavatar Narsimha OTT release: Mahavatar Narsimha, which hit the screens on July 25, has exceeded expectations at the box office and emerged as a commercial success. The animated drama has also received rave reviews with critics lauding the storyline and the presentation. Mahavatar Narsimha will premiere on OTT after its theatrical run. Rohit Jaiswal, a trade analyst, told Indiatimes that there is a strong chace of the Hombale Films-backed blockbuster premiering on JioHotstar. 'This is a Hombale film so there is a 50% possibility of it going to JioHotstar,' he said. The Hindi version of Prabhas' Salaar premiered on JioHotstar after its theatrical run. Similarly, the 2017 blockbuster Raajakumara is available on the platform in Hindi. Going by this, it appears that Mahavatar Narsimha (or at least its Hindi version) too will follow a similar path. The Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, and Malayalam versions may land elsewhere. Mahavatar Narsimha plot explored Set in a mythic world of demigods and demons, Mahavatar Narsimha focuses on the seemingly invincible demon king Hiranyakashipu. He vows to avenge his brother Hiranyaksha's death at the hands of Lord Vishnu's Varaha avatar. He then adopts the path of austerity to acquire formidable powers and soon declares himself to be a god. His young son (Prahlad), however, remains devoted to Lord Vishnu and rises against his own father. He then remains a devotee despite numerous threats to his life. This leads to the emergence of Lord Vishnu's Narsimha avatar, who ultimately neutralises Hiranyakashipu and restores balance to the universe. Aditya Raj Sharma,Haripriya Matta, and Sanket Jaiswal have lent their voices to the Hindi version. Mahavatar Narshimha review and box office performance The film has received positive reviews from all corners. The Times of India gave it 3 stars out of 5 and called the film a 'grand visual odyssey'. 'As a first attempt, it lays the groundwork for a promising future in Indian animated mythological cinema. It's certainly worth experiencing in theatres—for both its pioneering effort and its visual ambition,' read a part of the review. The positive word-of-mouth has helped Mahavatar Narsimha do well at the box office. According to Sacnilk, a trade website, Mahavatar Narsimha has earned Rs 21.85 crore (nett) in India so far. This is an astonishing figure given the moderate budget of Rs 20 crore and its lack of star power.
BBC News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
DJ expects 'big things' at Stoke-on-Trent pottery museum rave
A DJ expects "big things" when he hosts a rave at a former pottery – the first to take place at the site in its 238-year Tilstone and a number of other artists will perform at the event at Gladstone Pottery Museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, on told BBC Radio Stoke he was "excited and nervous" because it was the first time something like this had been pulled off at the site."It's a first for me and a first for the venue so I'm just double checking everything and hopefully it will go amazingly well," he added. Mr Tilstone, from Biddulph, Staffordshire, came up with the idea after he went around the city visiting places like Gladstone for a mix he put together on said he always imagined the energy of a place like Gladstone would be "absolutely amazing" when combined with the sound of dance music."It's a completely unique place, not just in the country but in the world," he said. A pottery factory first opened at Gladstone in 1787 but the bottle kilns were fired for the last time in 1960 before the site was put up for Grade II-listed building was eventually opened as a museum on 24 April 1975 by Prince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester, and the city council took ownership in Tilstone said the rave, which sold out within three weeks, could help to re-energise the city's clubbing scene, with a second event booked at the site on 9 August."I think it's fair to say that the Stoke club scene has slowly degraded and got worse and worse over the last 15 years, much to everyone's disapproval," he said. "People have tried to fight it and unfortunately it's still going that way."He said the event was a "classic case of limited options forcing a bit of creativity out of a bad situation"."I'm not going to lie, I'm expecting big things from the Stokie crowd," he added. "I've heard so much about the history and energy we have as a people." Follow BBC Stoke & Staffordshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Daily Mail
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
'Rave guy' whose eyepopping picture found him internet fame recreates meme that made him famous at Tomorrowland - and reveals what he's up to now
For some, the party don't stop. Shaun Jackson - the 'rave guy' who went viral for his eyepopping moves - is one such person. The wide-eyed northerner may have been cutting shapes at a Preston night club over a decade ago but the immortalised dancer was spotted at Tomorrowland, enjoying himself just as much. In a bright yellow T-shirt and a bustling crowd, Mr Jackson was dancing along to Charlotte de Witte, a techno DJ at the Belgian music festival. Specialising in electronic dance music, Mr Jackson would have felt right at home. Then some 40 years old, Mr Jackson was first captured in promotional footage for the Rumes bar in 2014 cutting shapes on the dance floor. The clip soon amassed hundreds of thousands of views - also catapulting the obscure night club where he raved the night away into international fame. While the party-goer has continued his love for a good time over the years, spotted at several dance events, he has also been spending time his grandchildren. The most recent clip of him dancing, Mr Jackson's moves were met with mixed response. One person wrote 'this is kind of sad' and another said 'beyond borrring now'. But others welcomed his fun-loving spirit, with a user writing 'proper old school raver, keep up with those disco biscuit dancing skills' and one person adding 'f***ing legend he is alive and enjoying! Respect!'. In one of his most recent Instagram posts - dated August 2023 - Mr Jackson poses shirtless with his tongue stuck out during a trip to Ibiza. Since then, Mr Jackson has uploaded elsewhere - on his TikTok - with one of the latest videos being a bizarre clip captioned 'on my wedding day', from May 2024. In it, the Chorley local, wears what appears to be a teal-coloured dress as he gestures over at a woman dressed in a white gown, who initially has her back turned to the camera. The video has elicited comments such as 'you are too funny! love it!' and 'still going strong'. There are number of videos also posted by Mr Jackson from 2023 where he makes expressive faces at the camera and, in his job as a plasterer, shows off some of construction work. Though, in a sweet clip captioned 'day in the park with the grandkids', he waves his arms about before a grandson spins him round and round in the park play area, with the northerner growing increasingly red. In his 2019 interview with Flexxed, Mr Jackson previously revealed he'd gone out with 'three-quarters of a bottle of Vodka already down by neck and then three or four drags of real good MD (MDMA)'. He also made headlines in 2022, when spotted at the Glastonbury Music festival and even had an action figure made in his honor that same year. The former boxer also once told BuzzFeed he was delighted with his fame and while on a weekend shopping trip 'everyone started clapping and cheering'. Mr Jackson previously said his only regrets were there had been no one filming when things got wilder as the night went on.
Daily Mail
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Liquid star Eamon Downes has died: Tributes pour in as rave pioneer behind club anthem Sweet Harmony loses five year cancer battle
Rave pioneer Eamon Downes has died following a five year battle with cancer, his family confirmed on Tuesday. The talented producer, who was also known as Ame, enjoyed enormous success as one half of pioneering dance act Liquid in the early 1990s. Signed to XL Recordings - the label responsible for launching The Prodigy - Downes and band-mate Shane Heneghan, best known as DJ Model, scored one of the biggest hits of the era with Sweet Harmony. Originally released independently in 1991, the iconic track sampled heavily from the CeCe Rogers' 1987 single Someday - notably its euphoric piano motif. Confirming his death on social media, fellow DJ Billy Daniel Bunter wrote: 'It's with heartbreaking sadness that I'm letting the world know we've lost Eamon Downes, devoted husband to Stella, proud dad to Bea, and one of my closest friends one really hurts. 'I still remember him playing me 'Sweet Harmony' down the phone before it got cut. When XL signed it, he was buzzing. Sending dubplates by bike to Pete Tong and then straight to me at Labrynth, he loved that side of things.' MORE TO FOLLOW
The Guardian
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Such a violent confrontation': Love Decade, the Leeds rave that prompted 836 arrests
As the booming sub-bass of LFO rattled around an old Sony warehouse on the outskirts of Leeds in July 1990, the reverberating sound was enough to mute the buzz of police helicopters circling above. However, when their lights began to pierce through the glass windows, the 800-plus ravers at Love Decade knew something wasn't right. 'There was a dark, intense atmosphere,' recalls Jane Winterbottom. 'I felt trapped, claustrophobic, and a wave of nausea came over me. I wanted to escape but I couldn't. All the doors were shut and we were locked in.' As word had spread that the building was surrounded by police, a young DJ who was on the decks at the time, Rob Tissera, decided to take action. 'I got on the microphone, and very stupidly and regrettably, said: 'If you want to keep the party going, we're gonna have to fight the bastards.'' People did just that. 'Everybody turned into bloody hooligans,' he says. 'It ended in a three-hour siege and got pretty nasty.' A van was moved against the shutters to block police from coming in, and objects were thrown at them out of the windows, as the authorities even tried using a forklift truck to pry open the steel shutters. 'It was a full-on riot,' says Winterbottom. Eventually the police got in and grabbed every single person, all 836 of them, resulting in one of the biggest mass arrests in UK history. That day, 35 years ago, was a pivotal moment in UK dance music, and one that had perhaps been brewing for some time. This was the era after 1988's 'second summer of love': house and techno were powering a grassroots rave scene that was outraging the tabloids and facing a crackdown from police. Winterbottom had been part of a crew in Blackburn throwing illegal warehouse parties but, she says, 'We couldn't get one going there any more, the police were too heavy.' So they found a spot in Gildersome on an industrial estate. Tissera had been DJing a wedding earlier that evening in Manchester, where the father of the groom had given him a stern telling off for playing too much rave, and then he headed over. 'There were hundreds of cars going from the north-west to Leeds, so I followed the convoy,' he recalls. Things had become so clandestine by this point that sound systems had to be built on-site to avoid detection, and decks were brought in covertly in ski holdalls. Things began normally enough but soon there was a feeling something was off. It's estimated there were about 2-3,000 ravers outside trying to get in but they had been stopped by a police operation involving roadblocks, dogs, searchlights and helicopters. Around 5am, after the hours-long standoff, police got in. 'The crowd were running around the warehouse in sheer terror,' says Winterbottom, who also says she witnessed her female friend knocked unconscious by a police truncheon (West Yorkshire police did not offer comment for this piece). 'The whole thing was so scary. It was such a violent confrontation. You couldn't escape.' The police pulled people outside in groups of about 20, put them into vans and sent them off to various stations to book them. Most were later sent home and back to their normal lives with just a caution, but not Tissera. 'They did a dawn raid on my house and scooped me up,' he says. 'They took me to Halifax police station and said, 'We've got a video nasty that we want to play you.'' It turns out there was video footage that had captured his incendiary words to the crowd. 'When I saw what it was: hands up, guilty as charged, there was no way around it.' He thought he was going to get off. 'My barrister said I was going to get a fine and a suspended sentence,' he says. 'I was due to go to Corfu to DJ the following day. When the judge made me stand up for my punishment it was completely unexpected and it changed the course of my life. The verdict made my eyeballs shake. I almost fell over.' Tissera was sentenced to three months in prison for inciting a riot and the dishonest abstraction of electricity. A new law had very recently been put into place by the MP Graham Bright. The Entertainment (Increased Penalties) Act of 1990 meant that organisers of unlicensed events could now be jailed for up to six months or fined heavily. With Bright himself present in court, Tissera feels he was made an example of. 'And so it was off to Armley jail [now HMP Leeds],' he says. 'It was proper Victorian: two bunk beds and a bucket. It was quite unpleasant – I saw people getting slashed in there.' Thankfully, an experienced and avuncular cellmate looked after him and he came out unscathed. If anything, it did his reputation the world of good and the DJ bookings came flying in. 'It definitely helped,' he says. 'It became a bit of a folklore thing that you were the guy who went to jail for acid house. It gave me credibility. However, I should never have said something so stupid.' It was a line-in-the-sand moment for many when it came to illegal warehouse parties. 'It was a sure sign that this was the end,' says Winterbottom. 'You couldn't get anything off the ground. Even a little party in the woods for 50 people would get busted.' Many people left that world altogether: some went legit as dance music moved into a new era of commercialism, while others joined forces with the traveller community and moved the free party scene outdoors. 'That was the turning point,' says Tissera, who has become a career DJ. 'That incident really shaped what came next.' However, despite the fear, chaos and violence of that day, it has done nothing to taint the memories of that era and those wild, uninhabited raves when they were in full swing. 'It was such an experience to live through all of it,' says Winterbottom, who is writing a book about Blackburn raves. 'The parties were amazing, [they outweighed] the violence we suffered. I could never regret a moment of it.'
