Talk about synchronicity….the same day that I was chatting with my girlfriends about the movie and its original rhyming five-minute trailer (general consensus: we’re all looking forward to it, I’m not wild about the patchy  stubble on SRK, and the rhyming gimmick got on everyone’s nerves, fast),  Bombay Addict sends me this photo, taken en […]

O.k., let’s just tackle the most obvious thing head on:   this is Angelina Jolie’s vehicle. If you happen to be touched  – willingly or unwillingly – by the sea of pop culture and celebrity omnipresence around us nowadays, you can’t help but know who she is, and how famous she is, whether you were […]

  Two summers ago on a humid, thick, hot Sunday afternoon, I nipped into my local for a reduced price matinee of Bunty aur Babli.   While my skin cooled in the frosty theater, my heart raced watching the colorful clothes and capers of Abhi and Rani as they skirted, then ditched, UP for Bombay. […]

I guess only so much of Mariane Pearl rubbed off on La Jolie. Yesterday was  the premiere of A Mighty Heart, her and Brad’s biopic about  the Daniel Pearl kidnapping and onscreen slaughter, and the time that the six-months pregnant Mariane spent in Karachi waiting and trying to piece together the reason for Danny’s disappearance. […]

This is a first for me tonight: a screening where they were turning people away.   A lot of interest already in the Angelina Jolie, Irrfan Khan starrer A Mighty Heart.   Review and more coming soon…

  Within the space of 10 months only we have seen three good movies with Konkona Sensharma in prominent roles.   Last year, she did an excellent turn in Omkara, two weeks ago she was the intelligent thirtysomething daring to take a chance and follow her heart in Metro, and now, on May 25th audiences […]