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 the film. Both the director and actor have been nominated for NYIFF awards. Here’s a summary of that talk: Aseem […]
Month: May 2014
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 street in Bombay. She’s been left alone in the car by her father, Rahul, a struggling actor, while he goes […]
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 and executive director of the IAAC, Aroon Shivdasani said “People think of Indian film, many people think only of music […]
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 a recent New York performance of Swing, the play that the Dublin native she co-wrote with fellow actor Steve Blount […]
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 who is a centenarian. Over the course of her remarkable life, Zohra Segal has toured the world with the Uday […]