It was just announced that Deepa Mehta’s film Water, Canada’s entry this year for best foreign film at the Academy Awards, has been selected as one of the final group in the running. An earlier review of the film is here.
Month: January 2007
More pix from the Guru press conf
Flash! Damn, I thought I put the ring in my jacket pocket! Diamante bindi Abhiwarya A.R. Rahman wondering, given that 85% of the questions went to AB 2.0, and 10 to Mani, what he’s doing here Ash making a point Abhi sending out coded signals through his very own […]
Polyester vs. Khadi: Guru
Last year it was Rang de Basanti and Omkara…. now, before the second week of January 2007 is over, we have Guru. Three films, all less slapstick and fanciful than, say, Phir Hera Pheri or Chup Chup Ke, more real, yet still with the vibrant song picturizations and visual lyricism that so many […]
Guru article for India-West
Here’s an article I did on the U.S. launch of Guru that appeared in this week’s edition of India-West.
Vikram Chandra at the Asia Society, NYC
Why blog about a fiction writer promoting his latest novel, in the midst of all this filmi subject matter? Because he comes from a Bombay movie family? He does, but no, that’s not why. Because he co-wrote Mission Kashmir? He did, but that’s not it either. Toh phir? Because his latest book, the […]
Quick pix from the Guru press conference, NYC
AB 2.0’s watch AB 2.0’s phone: A.R. Rahman, Mani Sir, AB 2.0 (Ash was yet to arrive), and, some man’s head: (The movie was amazing.)