Good news, filmi fans:   Hindi movies have returned to the Columbia Park Stadium 12 cinema in North Bergen. One year ago ejackly  I was lamenting the former Cineplaza cinema’s  disappearance as one by-product of an enthusiastic real estate move.   But oh, how the murukku crumbles…… The very same cinema has returned to the […]

Musing on a connection between the Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia …and the Indian director Sudhir Mishra

Just had to share this little nugget I happened to notice under the Wikipedia entry for the movie Lakeer, under the “Cast” section: * Nauheed Cyrusi as … FARHIYO AHMED i love the girl in this movie she is so hott i swear i die for her i don’t know if she have a man […]

NBC legal expert Dan Abrams, appearing on NBC’s nationally televised Today show, just declared Bollywood a “loser” for the choice of Sly Stallone as the actor who would be involved in the  Hindi movie Kambaqt Ishq, one part of the bigger story  that’s been so much in the press this week. You can see a […]

Having temporarily rebelled against the required reading for certain pieces  to come, I’ve been devouring Amitava Kumar’s  2007 novel Home Products.      The protagonist is a writer from Bihar (hey, wait a minute…) who comes to Bombay and works as a film journalist, and then gets involved in writing a screenplay.   As if […]

  No, friends, not a reference to the hunk in that movie opening on May 30th…. But rather, I’m  wondering what’s the hold-up with the East coast cinemas of the Big chain that Reliance Capital has bought, for the purpose  of  screening Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and other films in areas with large South Asian populations. […]