Why blog about a fiction writer promoting his latest novel, in the midst of all this filmi subject matter? Because he comes from a Bombay movie family?   He does, but no, that’s not why. Because he co-wrote Mission Kashmir?   He did, but that’s not it either. Toh phir? Because his latest book, the […]

  Seen en route to the Indian consulate last week. The tricolor flies over the hotel that was once a fave of Princess Di’s, owing to the fact that the luxury lodging on Fifth Avenue is now managed by the Taj Group.

My home, that is.   The  dentally endowed  Virar ka Chokra and the fetching Raveena greet me  upon  exiting  the shower every morning. Meanwhile, Malli plays “Where’s Waldo?”, searching for an elusive NASA project manager  on the Charanpur Mail.   (Psst, Malli, look for the FedEx envelope.)

Rediff reports that AB 2.0 and the glacial Miss Ash  –  Bachchans père et mère too –  have been to see a particular astrologer several times while filming Guru, and word has been leaked that the World’s Most Beautiful Couple will tie the knot in 2007. All well and good, but I want to know […]

According to Madhu Jain in her book The Kapoors: The First Family of Indian Cinema, this what the 22-year-old Prithviraj Kapoor told his taxi driver after he stepped off the train from Peshawar.   He had never seen the ocean.   After arriving at the shore, he pledged to God to become an actor in […]