On July 26th, Disney made cinematic history when they simultaneously released two Hindi films (Do Dooni Char, Zokkomon) and one Telugu film (Anaganaga O Dheerudu / Once Upon a Warrior) on DVD, digital download and video-on-demand in the US. I opted for the Siddharth swashbuckler directed by Prakash Kovelamudi that had its theatrical release in […]
Year: 2011
Anurag Kashyap & Kalki Koechlin film premiere at the Asia Society
Last night New Yorkers had a chance to see That Girl in Yellow Boots when it had its worldwide premiere at the Asia Society, more than a week before it releases across the US and India. The film was the opener at last year’s SAIFF and created much excitement there. (By the way, there was […]
ESB honors India
Here’s the Empire State Building dressed up Saturday night in India’s colors, in anticipation of the India Day Parade which was to take place on Sunday, August 20, with Rani Mukherjee as the grand marshal: and here’s Madison Avenue on Sunday morning, with the barricades up and the NYPD on the scene, prior to the […]
Life’s filmi soundtrack
This is a piece that appeared on Firstpost today, under the title How I met and fell in love with AR Rahman: On my commute to work the other day, plugged in like always to my iPod, I scrolled through playlists, trying to find something I hadn’t listened to lately. I stopped at a playlist labelled […]
U2 concert pix
Here are some pictures from this Wednesday’s U2 concert at the new Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, delayed by one year due to Bono’s back surgery. Even with the balmy weather, it was a brilliant show. That expensive claw device that they designed to give their stadium show audiences a 360 degree experience was well […]
Oh Karan: the Masala Zindabad KWK Season 3 Awards podcast
There’s that line parents give their children: ”It’s not that we’re mad at you, we’re disappointed,” and I think it really sums up my mixed feelings about the chat show (or should I say “cat show”, for all the catty behavior exhibited therein?) that is Koffee With Karan. Amrita of IndieQuill and Beth of Beth […]