I had to smile when I first glimpsed  this page  in the luxe information kit that Jet Airways distributed at the Waldorf Astoria lunch they hosted to announce  their arrival  at US shores. The map, and, more specifically, the point-of-view and perspective  remind me of a certain famous  poster that used to hang in […]

  Holy Toledo,  to listen to NDTV’s coverage yesterday (and today) of the six-year prison sentence for Sanjay Dutt, you’d think he (or some head of state) had just died! Over and over, they played  every tiny celluloid detail of  the past two decades of his life, and the reactions and tributes from the film […]

  Pleasant surprise over morning kcoffee…. Karan Johar as Shekhar Gupta’s guest on Walk the Talk, the pair strolling along the Bombay waterfront.   KJo was wearing jeans and big sandals with  a black short-sleeved tee shirt (that said Ready 2 Rock), and his usual big red watch. Here’s a few highlights: Karan commented that […]

  Jet Airways pulled out all the stops last week to celebrate the imminent arrival of their first flight from Bombay to New York on August 5th, coming via Brussels and arriving at Newark Liberty Airport (which I find more manageable than JFK, thought Jet apparently has its eye on JFK too, further down the […]

  The Indian movie multiplex in North Bergen –  Cineplaza  –  and recent home to both Jhoom Barabar Jhoom and Sivaji (in Tamil and Telugu), has just closed up shop. The reason:     $ $ $ You can read more here. And some references  here, for part of a story I did last year […]

Is it just me, or does anyone else see a similarity? First, the Desi half of DesiLu Productions: Then, Papa Deol: Once more: Desi: Dharam-ji: