In anticipation of the October 31 release of the Ashok Amritraj production The Other End of the Line, the film’s poster is out, complete with gender-appropriate colored telephone handsets.   You can see the trailer here.     The film stars hunky Jesse Metcalfe (from Desperate Housewives) and Shriya Saran (recently seen in Sivaji: […]

  To my surprise this evening,   The Imaginasian theater here in NYC was empty just minutes before the 7pm show.   When meself and my three friends sat down, there was only us, plus four other people in the entire theater (a far cry from the last time we met up there, for Kabhi […]

I’m not usually one of those women who fall into rapturous spasms at the sight of tiny baby clothes, but I have to admit that even I said “Awwww” when I caught a glimpse of one of the Abhiyum Naanum posters: The  upcoming Deepavali November release  is about the bond between  fathers and daughters, and […]

  Just had to get in a quick work about the topical, terror-in-our-cities film Shoot on Sight, starring Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Brian Cox and Greta Scacchi. Naseer is his usual good self and completely  sympathetic as the suave, unflappable Tariq Ali, high-ranking man (and Muslim) on the British police force.   In a not-to-subtle […]

It’s a rainy, gloomy Friday in NYC.   What better way to warm things up and start the weekend off right than in the company of two smart, funny and cute men from “the Show Business” (as Mukesh Ambani calls it):   Aasif Mandvi, star of stage, film and TV will be doing the Q […]

If you’re in the tri-state area, you can catch the hilarious Loins of Punjab Presents in two cinemas in Manhattan (The Imaginasian and the Quad) as well as over in Jersey at  my fave, the Columbia Park 12 in North Bergen, and a cinema in Bloomfield, Connecticut. If you attend the first four NYC shows […]