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Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga set the tone at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night with career-defining moments of their own, Associated Press reported.

Grande scored two honors — video of the year and best pop video — and had the audience buzzing when she thanked her “therapists and gay people” during her acceptance speech. 

Gaga, the night’s top nominee, kicked things off by winning artist of the year before later delivering on her promise to perform. She hit the stage at Madison Square Garden after her acceptance speech, which sent the audience into a frenzy at the UBS Arena where the VMAs were being held. 

In her earlier remarks, Gaga stressed the deeper meaning of artistry, according to Associated Press.

U.S. indie director Jim Jarmusch unexpectedly won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday with "Father Mother Sister Brother", a three-part meditation on the uneasy ties between parents and their adult children, Reuters reported.

Although his gentle comedy received largely positive reviews, it had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping "The Voice of Hind Rajab", a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war.

In the end, the film directed by Tunisia's Kaouther Ben Hania took the runner-up Silver Lion.

Divided into chapters set in New Jersey, Dublin and Paris, "Father Mother Sister Brother" features an ensemble cast including Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat, according to Reuters.

A new Bollywood film has reignited an age-old conversation around how India's largest and most influential film industry represents characters from non-Hindi speaking states, BBC reported.

Param Sundari, a romcom starring Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor, is a love story between a woman from the southern state of Kerala and a man from Delhi in northern India.

Param and Sundari first butt heads and then fall in love, successfully overcoming the cultural differences between them.

The idea isn't new: Bollywood has long explored north-south cultural clashes through romcoms, and in a multilingual country, well-executed cross-cultural romances can be a hit, according to BBC.

The shooting of the Nepali film Kumari has officially begun. The inaugural ceremony was held on Tuesday morning at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, attended by the main cast, director, and production team.

Directed by Dinesh Raut, the filming started in the Patan area of Lalitpur, with the aim of completing it within 35 days. Abhishek Khadka and Aakriti Rajbhandari play the lead roles, alongside Ghanashyam Joshi, Sunita Shrestha, Akanksha Karki, Madhu Khadka, Sanam Shrestha, Saku Shah, Saroj Lamichhane, Manisha Sharma, and Bhupi Luhar.

The film is being produced by Mahendra Adhikari under the banner of Binish Entertainment, in collaboration with Picture Frame, with the script written by Bikash Subedi. Earlier, the film had been announced through a poster and cast reveal program featuring a live performance by singer Kehar Singh Limbu and his band Kehar and The Lunga. Limbu also makes his playback singing debut with the film’s song Kata Chhau, which has already gained attention.

The music is composed by Kehar Singh Limbu, Suman Tamang, and Prashant Sibakoti, with lyrics by Sagar Lamichhane Magar, Suman Tamang, and Yuvaraj Kafle.

Director Raut, known for romantic films such as I Am Sorry, November Rain, and Classic, as well as socially themed projects like Parva, Mahabhhoj, Prasad, Prakash, and Pujar Sarki, returns to the romance genre with Kumari.

The film’s cinematography is led by Susan Prajapati, with Kedar Bhusal as executive producer, Ashika Sharma as production designer, and Dinesh Bahadur Rawat as chief assistant director. Riya Adhikari has written an on-screen poem for the film. Other contributors include Royal Bhimsen (Trident Concept) for poster and publicity design, Supreme Parajuli for color grading, Uttam Neupane for sound design, and Kiran Thapa for choreography.