The new Sarkar Raj  is a love letter from Ramu to the triple-A Bachchan trio.   If triple-X connotes slimy, sleazy and anything-goes nangi antics, then triple-A here is the highest of star heights, fullest of full-on media attention to every Karva Chauth, barefoot temple pilgrimage, phoren fillum festival, product endorsement, movie launch, music […]

has there been such a desi-Latino mash-up recently….yelo…Jessica Alba in a sari:   The photo’s a still from the soon-to-hit-the-screens The Love Guru. And on the subject  of Mike Myers’ latest release,  here’s an interview I did for Khabar magazine with Manu Narayan about his work on the film and his career.

  To mark the release of the DVD of his film Vanaja, director Rajnesh Domalpalli will be appearing at an event Friday evening, May 30, at the Borders in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle. Domalpalli will discuss four scenes from the film (of his choosing), and audience members will ask about another four […]

  For anyone who doesn’t live in a city where Vanaja was released last year, or who just happened to miss it, the great news is that Emerging Pictures has just released the DVD, with some terrific  additional features. First, there are four short films (each around 10 minutes in length) that the director, Rajnesh […]

Master cinematographer Santosh Sivan has again put on his director’s hat for Before the Rains, opening today in NY and LA. (Not to be confused with the gorgeous 1994 Macedonian film Before the Rain by Milcho Manchevski.) Here  in Manhattan, we’ve  seen a lot of the director and his cast in the past week or […]

The film adaptation of Monica Ali’s Booker-winning novel arrives in cinemas on June 20 in NY and LA, the rolls on to release in other cities soon after. The movie trailer looks promising. And I’m really curious to see mainstream Hindi movie actor Satish Kaushik in the role of Nazneen’s husband.