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Hindustan Times Pune
|December 27, 2025
This year was One Battle After Another. There were Stranger Things. We lived through some epic Eras. Were you tuned in? Test yourself with our quiz.
This Tortured Poet happens to be a Showgirl and the wealthiest female musician.
She shook off her past relationships, swore she'd never get back together. Then, she found a Lover and got engaged. It was a moment for the Eras. Whose Love Story?
Tyla Doechii
Selena Gomez Taylor Swift
Yay for women in film! Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies was India's official selection for the Oscars. Anuparna Roy won the Orizzonti Award at Venice for Songs of Forgotten Trees. Payal Kapadia got on the 2025 Cannes jury after winning the Grand Prix in 2024 — for which movie?
Cinema Bandi
All We Imagine As Light
The Great Indian Kitchen
Girls will be Girls
Tickets in India vanished at The Speed of Sound. Resale value: Up to ₹10 lakh. A record 1.34 lakh people showed up at Ahmedabad. Jasleen Royal opened for them in Mumbai. A CEO and a coworker were caught canoodling under A Sky Full Of Stars at their US concert. Say a Hymn for the Weekend, at whose concerts?
Oasis Porcupine Tree
Coldplay Radiohead
Everyone looked like they stepped into a Miyazaki frame. OpenAI's 4o generator converted photos into dreamy, magical, almost hand-drawn portraits. It went viral and was dubbed the —style, after Miyazaki's Studio. The Italian word actually means a hot dust-bearing wind of the North African desert.
Naruto Mononoke
Kodama Ghibli
Owen Cooper was stunning as a murderous 13-year-old in Adolescence. Stephen Graham directed, wrote and acted. But Matthew Lewis's cinematography stole the show. The behind-the-scenes got attention for the same reason Russian Ark did in 2002. Hitchcock's Rope sort of invented it. Four episodes. How many takes per episode?
1 4 20 200
Round up the ARMY. Stock up on ARMY bombs. The Bulletproof Boy Scouts are out of the military. The new album is recorded. The comeback tour is planned. Apobangpo! If you purple them, name the boy band.
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This story is from the December 27, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Pune.
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