(Note: This is a story I wrote for India Abroad that appeared in the Oct. 5, 2007 issue. There’s nothing filmi about it, though a young life suddenly cut short has been depicted often enough on screen. But I wanted to post this story here, in the hope that more people will […]
Category: Interval
A pause between reviews.
Shame on you, PlanetM
Here it is, late Thursday night. I’ve just put in a full day at the office, finished a novel I’m reviewing on the way home on the train, spoke to the author for close to an hour for the same article, made some pasta for dinner, chatted on the phone while The Celebrity […]
Moon Over My Abhi
The Miami Herald reports that the KJo Dostana entourage has touched down in Florida and begun shooting: The production is expected to have all the kitschy trappings that have made Bollywood movies such a hit worldwide, including a zany musical number to be filmed on Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road. Filmi fans will get to […]
Two former colonies united by a gift of the gab
How could I let March 17th go by without some reference to the small island that gave us The Commitments, Into the West, The Pogues, and those guys who sang “Two Hearts Beat as One“? The question is how to link the country where I spent all those summers as a kid (in the same […]
Omkara, the back story
In 2007, we saw Anupama Chopra’s SRK book released, which told of Khan’s bio and career trajectory, while also giving readers an intro to the Bombay film industry. Later in the same year, Stephen Alter’s Confessions of a Bollywood Love Thief made its appearance. (Try reading a book with that title on the […]
Ad Nauseum, or, I used to love you; now I can’t stand the sound of your voice.
When I signed up for a packet of channels from India a while back, my immediate favorite of the group was NDTV 24/7. In addition to the round-the-clock news coverage, they also offer a quasi-Entertainment Tonight show six days a week, every Sunday morning Barkha Dutt takes on some current topic of controversy […]