It’s that time of the year again….. the New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest is underway this weekend at Rutgers University. Films this year are from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Canada, Ireland (whoo hoo!), Nepal, Pakistan, Scotland, Sri Lanka, Tibet, UK and US. Many of the films will include Q & A afterward with […]
Category: Interval
A pause between reviews.
September 11, 2008
Not filmi, but two stunning programs today about that day 7 years ago: Objects and Memory, a documentary running on PBS, about the project of the same name. 102 Minutes that Changed America, Eyewitness to 9/11, running on the History channel.
A death in the family
Dear friends, fillum fans, occasional visitors, My blogging has slowed to a trickle in recent weeks due to the sudden illness and now passing of my mother. She was an incredibly strong woman who emigrated to the US in search of better career options. Thanks to her work in the travel industry, she showed […]
Kooking with Kamna
Sorry, sorry, still feeling the after effects of Kismat Konnection…… Here’s an interesting blogpost that I stumbled across about a week ago…… in it, Janet Miller, a woman out in California, tells about a recent cooking experience with Kamna Chandra, the Hindi movie screenwriter who scripted 1942: A Love Story, among others. Mrs. […]
They’re back!
A while back I lamented the fact that the suits at NDTV decided to cut off the Indian ads when they beam the signal for NDTV 24/7 to those of us living off the Subcontinent. Instead, they subjected us to loop after loop after loop of the same, same, same, same clips of their […]
Tum? Yahaan??
Finally got around to watching Ang Lee’s Shanghai-based period film Lust, Caution, and who should appear – close to the end of the film – as the protagonist cautiously enters Chandni Chowk Jewellers, but hamara Anupam Kher, seated behind a desk, as the jeweller/owner Mr. Said Khalid Uddin. It’s a small role, he only […]