The 2014 South Asian International Film Festival kicked off Tuesday night with the multi-director movie (brainchild of film critic and director Sudhish Kamath) X – Past is Present: For a film with 11 directors[…]
Category: Festival
Ugly: post-screening talkback with Anurag Kashyap & Rahul Bhatt
Following the opening night screening of Ugly at this year’s NYIFF, director Anurag Kashyap and lead actor Rahul Bhatt joined journalist and festival programmer Aseem Chhabra on stage at the NYU Skirball Center to discuss[…]
Ugly
The 2014 NYIFF opened Monday night with director Anurag Kashap’s latest film, Ugly, a disturbing study of several lives unraveling simultaneously and revealing the ugliness inside of each. A 10-year-old girl vanishes from a busy[…]
NYIFF 2014 Opening Night Red Carpet
The 2014 Indo-American Arts Council‘s New York Indian Film Festival kicked off last night at the NYU Skirball Center with Anurag Kashyap’s latest, Ugly. In talking about the primary aim of the festival, the founder[…]
Janet Moran: It was the best thing I’d ever seen
Fourteen years ago, in 2000, when Irish actress Janet Moran was in the Midlands for work, little did she know that she was about to cross paths with one member of the Khan triumvirate. After[…]
Gurinder, Zohra and the NYIFF
This past Sunday dancer and actress Zohra Segal turned 102. Having passed the 100 year mark, Zohra-ji now counts among her many other distinctions that of being the first actor from the Dr. Who series[…]