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Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan (2024 film)

Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan (छोटा भीम एंड द कर्स ऑफ़ दमयान), 2024 Hindi live-action children's film directed by Rajiv Chilaka, remaking the 2012 animated film; Bheem time-travels to Sonapur to stop demon Damyaan; released 31 May 2024, streamed on Netflix.

Chhoto kabita

Chhoto kabita (ছোট কবিতা, "small poems") is a small Bangladeshi poetry publisher with twelve poetry titles listed on the Boishala marketplace, and also a pen-name on bangla-kobita.com.

Chi Cheng (musician)

Chi Cheng (Chi Ling Cheng) was the American bassist of Sacramento alt-metal band Deftones from about 1989 to 2008, known for minimalist fingerstyle Fender Precision playing; a 2008 car crash left him comatose until his 2013 death.

Chi Chi DeVayne

Chi Chi DeVayne, stage name of Zavion Davenport (1985–2020), was a Shreveport, Louisiana drag queen who placed fourth on RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 (2016), competed on All Stars 3, and was famed for her 'And I Am Telling You' lip sync; she died of pneumonia at 34.

Chi Chi LaRue

Chi Chi LaRue (Larry David Paciotti, born 1959, Hibbing, Minnesota), American drag performer, DJ, and prolific gay adult film director; Catalina Video publicist turned director (Taylor Hudson, 1989), Falcon Studios and Channel 1 Releasing, decades-long condom-only advocate, Grabby Awards host, co-founder of Noir Male.

Chi Lewis-Parry

Chi "Chopper" Lewis-Parry, born 1983 in Hitchin, England, is a 206 cm British actor, stunt performer, and former MMA heavyweight fighter, known for playing Samson in 28 Years Later and The Bone Temple and Phoebus in Gladiator II.

Chi McBride

Chi McBride (Kenneth McBride, born 1961, Chicago) is an American actor known for Boston Public's Steven Harper, Pushing Daisies' Emerson Cod, Hawaii Five-0's Lou Grover, and the voice of Nick Fury in Marvel animation.

Chí Phèo

Chí Phèo is a 1941 short story by the Vietnamese realist writer Nam Cao, set in the village of Vũ Đại and now a classic of modern Vietnamese literature.

Chi Wara

Chi Wara is a mythical half-human, half-antelope culture hero of the Bamana people of Mali credited with introducing agriculture, and the carved headdresses made in his honor.

Chi Zijian

Chi Zijian (迟子建, born 1964) is a Chinese novelist from Mohe, Heilongjiang, whose novel The Last Quarter of the Moon won the Mao Dun Literature Prize.

Chi-Chi's

Chi-Chi's, American Tex-Mex restaurant chain founded 1975 by Marno McDermott and Max McGee in Minnesota; peaked at 200+ locations, collapsed in 2003 bankruptcy after the largest US hepatitis A outbreak, revived by Michael McDermott in 2025.

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq (2015) is Spike Lee's musical comedy-drama, co-written with Kevin Willmott, adapting Aristophanes' Lysistrata to Chicago gang violence; the first Amazon Original Movie, starring Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, and Wesley Snipes.

Chia Pet

Chia Pet, a Joseph Enterprises terracotta novelty planter coated with Salvia hispanica seeds that sprout as fur; relaunched 1982 by Joseph Pedott with the Ch-ch-ch-chia jingle.

Chiaki Kuriyama

Chiaki Kuriyama (栗山千明), born 1984, is a Japanese actress and singer from Ibaraki, known for Battle Royale (2000), Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), and her 2010 music debut as CHiAKi KURiYAMA.

Chianti

Chianti, Tuscan red wine DOCG based on Sangiovese; distinct from Chianti Classico DOCG, the historic 7-municipality zone with the Gallo Nero mark, 80-100% Sangiovese, and Annata, Riserva, and Gran Selezione tiers.

Chiara Ferragni

Chiara Ferragni (born 1987, Cremona) is an Italian fashion influencer and entrepreneur who founded The Blonde Salad blog in 2009 and the Chiara Ferragni Brand; subject of a Harvard case study, fined over the Balocco pandoro charity campaign in 2023 and cleared of aggravated fraud in 2026.

Chiara Mastroianni

Chiara Mastroianni (born 1972, Paris) is a French-Italian actress and singer, daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni; known for Persepolis, Chambre 212 (2019 Cannes Best Performance), and Marcello Mio (2024).

Chiara Oliver

Chiara Oliver is a Spanish singer and songwriter from Ciutadella de Menorca who rose to fame on Operación Triunfo 2023; her EPs La libreta rosa and La última página both reached number 1 in Spain.

Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro (chiaro-scuro, light-dark) is the art technique of strong light-dark contrast to model form and drama, used by Leonardo and Caravaggio, and also names Ugo da Carpi's 1516 multi-block chiaroscuro woodcut.

Chibi Fu

Chibi Fu, or Rhapsody on the Red Cliff, is a prose rhapsody written by the Song poet Su Shi in 1082 during his exile in Huangzhou.

Chibi Godzilla Raids Again (ちびゴジラの逆襲)

Chibi Godzilla Raids Again (ちびゴジラの逆襲) is a Toho short-form anime comedy, about 3 minutes per episode, that began April 1, 2023 on TV Tokyo's Ini Mini Manimo block; directed by Taketo Shinkai at Pie in the sky, with Season 4 airing from April 2026.

Chibi Maruko-chan (ちびまる子ちゃん)

Chibi Maruko-chan (ちびまる子ちゃん) is Momoko Sakura's manga about third-grader Maruko in Shimizu, Shizuoka, serialized in Ribon since 1986, adapted as a Fuji TV anime since 1990, with over 32.5 million copies in circulation.

Chibiusa (ちびうさ)

Chibiusa (ちびうさ), also Sailor Chibi Moon and dubbed Rini, is the future daughter of Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba in Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon, a 900-year-old princess of 30th-century Crystal Tokyo who debuts in the manga's Black Moon arc.

Chibuikem Uche

Chibuikem Uche (born 2000) is a British-Nigerian actor, former actuary, known as Cooper Clay in One of Us Is Lying and Kojo Achebe in Netflix's A Different World sequel.

Chic (band)

Chic, the American disco-funk band founded in New York in 1976 by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, creators of "Le Freak," "Good Times," and the Sister Sledge and Diana Ross productions that shaped post-disco pop and hip-hop.

Chica Sobresalto

Chica Sobresalto is the Spanish pop project of singer Maialen Gurbindo, born in 1994 in Navarra, known for feminist "pop molesto" and Operación Triunfo 2020.

Chicago (2002 film)

Chicago (2002) is Rob Marshall's Miramax film adaptation of the Kander-Ebb-Fosse musical, starring Zellweger, Zeta-Jones, and Gere; its songs play as fantasies in Roxie Hart's imagination, and it won six Oscars including Best Picture.

Chicago (album)

Chicago, retroactively known as Chicago II, is the second studio album by the rock band Chicago, a 1970 double album featuring the hit suite "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon."

Chicago (band)

Chicago, originally called the Big Thing, is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, known for blending horns with rock and selling over 100 million records.

Chicago (franchise)

One Chicago (Chicago franchise) is NBC's Dick Wolf shared-universe drama franchise: Chicago Fire (2012), Chicago P.D. (2014), Chicago Med (2015), and the canceled Chicago Justice (2017), aired as One Chicago Wednesdays with crossover events, filmed in Chicago, renewed through 2026-27.