Starting tonight (Friday) and running through Sunday afternoon, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY is holding a special retrospective of director Mani Ratnam’s films under the title Politics as Spectacle: The[…]
raj Amit Kumar interview
This is a recent interview I did with the director raj Amit Kumar, whose film Unfreedom has been banned in India. The film opened yesterday in the U.S., in New York and Los Angeles. It has[…]
Ray’s Restored Apu Trilogy opens today
Sixty years since the release of Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, a lovingly restored set of the films of The Apu Trilogy are being released by Janus Films for a limited time, starting today, May 8th,[…]
Poorna Jagannathan’s Nirbhaya: The Play
When I spotted actress, model and producer Poorna Jagannathan (who played the kick-ass and worldly journo in Delhi Belly) at the opening night of the Indo-American Arts Council‘s NYIFF on May 1st, 2013, I asked[…]
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
With the huge (and initially, surprising) success of John Madden’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, it wouldn’t take the keen insight of the Weinstein brothers to realize that a sequel might also prove to be[…]
SAIFF 2014 Opening Night Red Carpet
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[…]