Kailash Kher interview in Khabar

During Kailash Kher’s recent trips into and out of New York over the summer and into the fall, he sat down with me for an interview for Khabar magazine, and talked about about his efforts to reach a wider audience in the US, and also about his two new CDs, Chaandan Mein and Yatra (Nomadic […]

Oliver Hirschbiegel interview, pt. 2

This is the second half of my interview with director Oliver Hirschbiegel.   His film Five Minutes of Heaven, which stars Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt, opens today. Maria:   You got so many the details of the time and place so right (the Ford Cortina, the Georgie Best poster, etc.).   One image I […]

Oliver Hirschbiegel interview, pt. 1

This Friday an amazing film – Five Minutes of Heaven – opens in NYC and the UK, and I can’t urge you enough to check it out (I’ve already seen it twice in as many weeks last month).   You can watch the trailer here.   Each subsequent Friday after August 21st it will open […]

Bamboo Shoots: The star-spangled manner

Here’s a profile I did of the band Bamboo Shoots as it ran in India Abroad’s July 10, 2009 issue.   They’re a homegrown Jersey-based rock band, but with a variety of Indian influences – everything from classical to filmi music – in their pasts. Avir Mitra, Karl Sukhia and Shiv Puri were gathered, one […]

Kapoor’s Five Films

Here are a few questions that didn’t make it into the Khabar interview, in the interest of space, as well as Anil Kapoor’s list of his own films he’d recommend for  those unfamiliar with  his work: I had to ask you also about Salaam-E-Ishq.   Perhaps it didn’t get the box office results that everyone […]