In the lead-up to the August debut of the IFC mini-series Bollywood Hero, images of Chris Kattan, Pooja Kumar and Neha Dhupia have started appearing on a variety of buses around NYC (in this case, one of the tourist doubledeckers, and they’re also gracing the side of NYAS airport-bound vehicles too): IFC has also complied […]

I was born here, grew up here, went to college  and got my first tastes of independent life  below 23rd Street (admission to dance clubs on Tuesday nights for less than $10!) and above Central Park (ah, the luxury of cutting class to go to some exhibit at the Met or the Cloisters).   This […]

My local movie  guy promised me he’d be getting in the DVD of Dev D this weekend, and I hope he’s a man of his word, because I’m salivating at the prospect of seeing the flic a second time, but also ingesting a whole additional two hours ( ! ) of  the accompanying  DVD, containing […]

  When you get to the eye scene, try not to freak out.   Hold on tight and stay put, because things will get better, I promise. The man who gave the world Trainspotting has produced Slumdog Millionaire, this let’s-not-mince-words story about the picaresque life a young slum-dwelling boy, Jamal, who has been poor and […]

  The Taj Mahal?   Really?   There was nothing else that they could put on the poster to suggest India to Amrikan audiences? Ok, so, Priya lives in Bombay (or Mooooom-buy as, Granger, her love interest, hottie from Desperate Housewives Jesse Metcalfe calls it), and maybe not all gringos will realize that Gateway or […]

Had a chance last week to see the upcoming release, Slumdog Millionaire, an amazing  modern-day Dickensian saga set in aamchi Mumbai.   In addition to the doe-eyed Dev Patel in the lead, and the hunky Madhur Mittal as his brother, the film also stars Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Mahesh Manjrekar. The film’s  done very […]