Honestly, I had never heard of this 2003 movie until Michael of Bollywoodblog contacted me about joining in today with nine fellow bloggers in Europe and the U.S. for a group review of the film, and virtual meeting with director Sanjay Jha. Participating in this exercise are: from Austria: Baba aur Bollywood from Germany: […]
Month: September 2006
Save the Date! This Saturday, September 30: Special Bombay premier of Thaang
Amol Palekar’s new film Thaang (The Quest), will have a special premier September 30 at 9.00pm at the INOX Cinema at Nariman Point. The movie, the final in his trilogy dealing with sex and relationships, is about what happens to a marriage when a woman comes home and finds her husband in a compromising position […]
Some cornflakes mixture with your lambic?
Looks like the lucky citoyens of the dearly departed Jacques Brel’s native city are in for quite a treat over the next four months. Launching on October 7th, and running through to January 21st of next year, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles will host an India Festival, with performances by Talvin Singh (whoo hoo!), […]
Watering Eyes by SRK
A month back, I mentioned that SRK’s perfume Tiger Eyes would now be available in the US (for sale over the Internet). Not willing to hand over $50 for a celebrity scent, I wondered what it would smell like. Well, a girlfriend has written to me and here’s what she had to say: […]
Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu
Yes, the premise of this exercise when I started back in May was solely Hindi movies, but having just seen Kamalhasan’s latest (Tamil) movie Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, I’m making an exception. I’d been burned by the last few Tamil movies I handed over good money to see – first Priyasakhi and then Paramasivam – in […]
Post 9/11 Blues
Before escaping back into movieland… MC Riz has a song out that sums up his view on what it’s like to be South Asian in the UK nowadays: I got the post 9-11 blues On the telly nuthin but the post 911 news War, iraq, suicide bombs Stop hogging the limelight and make some […]