On the subject of Deepa Mehta’s Water and the problems the production team  ran into years back in Varanasi,  a friend, Rahul Bhatia, has  this piece in his blog (which also ran in Tehelka), about the guy who allegedly tried to kill himself to get Mehta to stop filming.

The pimp, or the queeny uncle?    

  What were you thinking?

Just around the same time that Bombay was bottoming out on Readers’ Digest rudeness survey, I had a very friendly email from Bombay Addict  –  who writes about movies and Bombay –  inviting me as a guest to his blog and proposing that we collaborate in an online discussion of his native city and how […]

  It started in earnest August 1997. An ad appeared on the weekend morning Indian shows for Pardes and I noticed that the theater was only 15 minutes away, so off I went. People stared a bit as I merged into the crowd, the only gringa on line for the 9p.m. showing, but I wasn’t […]

Last Friday night we moviegoers at Fanaa not only got to see Kajol back on screen and looking luscious after her four-year absence, there was also a first-time showing of a trailer for Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Karan Johar’s August-releasing movie which was filmed largely in and around hamara New York City (including Jersey City, […]