Am very happy to have finally made it to my first India Abroad Person of the Year awards this past Friday night, downtown at the Museum of the American Indian, and my goodness it was wall-to-wall well known folks with connections to the desh: Jagdish Bhagwati, Madhur Jaffrey, Mira Nair, Salman Rushdie, Zarin Mehta, […]
Category: Interval
A pause between reviews.
Wishing you a filmi St. Patrick’s Day
It’s a lovely sunny St. Patty’s Day here in New York City, folks are dressed in all sorts of bizarre green gear (Mardi Gras beads?? what the???), and there are men in kilts lugging pipes and drums on public transportation. Sure I’ve even donned a kurti with a green floral pattern and carried […]
THAT’S where I know her from!
Happened to catch part of the latest Celebrity Apprentice this week, and saw this blonde Playboy Playmate who is one of the contestants, and, at first, I mistook her for Gene Simmons’ wife/girlfriend/POSSLQ, Shannon Tweed, but then it hit me: she’s Brande Roderick, the Baywatch girl who played Ritesh Deshmukh’s gori wife in Out […]
Et tu, Oprah?
Of course, it was great to see the mass, mainstream exposure that Slumdog Millionaire got on Monday’s Oprah Post-Oscar show, with Danny Boyle, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto sitting down to chat about the film and the Oscar experience. After a commercial break, Oprah announced the performance of the film’s song Jai Ho by, […]
Slumdog @ the Oscars tonight
So this is the day. All Many eyes on the Kodak theater to see how many awards Slumdog Millionaire will take home. I confess I’ve lost interest in the awards in recent years, but tonight I’ll definitely be tuning in. Afterward, I’ve been asked to join a SAJA/SAMMA webcast on BlogTalkRadio to discuss […]
Sunday in Bombay
On the road from Lonavala to Bombay, one couple is still carrying over the V-day pink theme: Then there’s the film ads that roll by on buses, for American flics: and the latest Hindi releases: and let’s not forget the occasional passing public health notice: