Catching up with Pratibha Parmar

  Last year, her debut film  – Nina’s Heavenly Delights – screened at the Indo-American Arts Council’s 2006 film festival.   Now, the movie has just been released in New York City, with other US cities to follow soon.   Here’s my thoughts on the film from last fall. Read on for  a brief chat […]

Saawariya

Perhaps if I were still a swoony teenage girl, I would have loved this film unequivocally.   All through high school, my boyfriend lived in the next town over from my aunt and uncle, down in Mexico.   He would write once, sometimes twice a day.   At first, before I taught myself Spanish, I […]

MIAAC Film Festival on now!

Here‘s a great line-up of films at the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council, currently running in NYC through this Sunday, the 11th.   For a first this year, some films are also being screened just across the Hudson at the Newport Mall cinema in Jersey City, just steps away from the Newport/Pavonia stop on the PATH […]

Madhavan Takes Manhattan

  ….well, a corner of it at least…. Here are a few pics from tonight’s one-night-only NY screening at The Imaginasian of Evano Oruvan, the Tamil remake of the Marathi film Dombivli Fast.   The actor/co-producer was present, as well as the director, Nishikant Kamat, and Maddy’s leading lady, Sangeetha.   The event was sponsored […]

LCMD @ AMC

What better way to spend a Friday Eid and Navratri afternoon than at the spacious  AMC cinema at the Jersey Gardens Outlet Mall, just down the road (literally) from Newark Airport and IKEA, to see Laaga Chunari Mein Daag? The managers at the theater must have decided to try screening some Hindi movies to see […]