Reema Kagti caught a lot of people’s attention with the first film she wrote and directed, the quirky, fun Honeymoon Travels Private Ltd. in 2007. She also co-wrote Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara with friend and collaborator Zoya Akhtar. (And if you look carefully, you can see her appear very briefly in the audience at one […]
Year: 2012
At this year’s Imagine Science Film Festival
Some South Asian and Irish connections at this year’s Imagine Science Film Festival in NYC: Visions by Justin Singh Restoring Sight in Bangladesh by Tatiana McCabe Creature Cast: Lancet Liver Fluke by Pathikrit Bhattacharyya And from Ireland, Darragh O’ Connell’s 23 degrees, 5 minutes More details about the festival can be found here.
Anurag Kashyap on Aiyyaa: In Bollywood, people only watch regional films if they’re hits
Here’s the full interview I did with Anurag Kashyap when working on this profile of Prithviraj last week: When and how did you get involved with this project? I pushed Sachin to write it and make a feature out of it three years back, he’s been working on it since then. Sachin approached Prithviraj two […]
Aiyyaa: Let’s hear it for the girl
When I was a teenager in Catholic school, somewhere in either Junior or Senior year, I remember sitting in Mass one day and hearing the priest tell the congregation during the homily (the discussion of that day’s gospel reading) that sensuality is bad, and I remember thinking “Really? But why?” His sermon didn’t answer my […]
Imtiaz, Zoya and more – T2B, Day 1
So, Day 1 of Ticket 2 Bollywood now over. Madhur Bhandarkar was unable to be there, but sent a video apology. Some 100 or so people – actors, writers, and those hoping to be – turned out for the event at the Chatwal family’s Dream Downtown hotel. Screenwriter Anuraadha Tewari (Fashion, Heroine) gave an overview […]
The Oranges
I attended a screening of The Oranges as the last hot, steamy days of summer trailed off, and beside wanting to see a film with so many favorite actors (Oliver Platt, Allison Janney, Hugh Laurie, Catherine Keener), I relished the thought of spending 90 minutes watching a holiday comedy set in the weeks between Thanksgiving […]