Here are the titles being screened at  the Indo-American Arts Council Sixth Film Festival.   The opening night film is Mira Nair’s The Namesake on Wednesday night, the 1st of November, and the closing night film (on Sunday, 5th of November) is Backwaters, set in Kerala.   At the press conference hosted at the […]

Well, on screen at least.   He was  Hari Kumar in the Beeb’s Jewel in the Crown.    Later he went on to do the best book-on-tape I’ll ever own (The Moor’s Last Sigh), and  since then is almost never seen in anything in the U.S. (let’s not mention that terrorist turn in a certain […]

Well, who knew? My only motivation for going to  theater tonight were (1) the excitement of  seeing a Diwali hit on Thursday night at 8pm (EST) while India is  still  waking up and the cinemas there have yet to open, and (2) the  picturization of the Ganapati Morya Re  song.   I mean, come on, […]

The Imaginasian theater in Manhattan has  tickets  on sale right now for Don, which opens on Friday, October 20th, and according to the theater’s manager, Dylan Marchetti, they expect sales to be brisk. Meanwhile, across the Hudson, Don, along with Jaan e Maan  open on Thursday afternoon, the 19th.   (It’s as if Jersey was […]

Amol Palekar’s new film Thaang (The Quest), will have a special premier September 30 at 9.00pm at the INOX Cinema at Nariman Point. The movie, the  final in his trilogy dealing with sex and relationships,  is about what happens to a marriage when a woman  comes home and finds her husband in a compromising position […]

  Yes, the premise of this exercise when I started back in May was solely Hindi movies, but having just seen Kamalhasan’s latest (Tamil) movie Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, I’m making an exception. I’d been burned by the last few Tamil movies I handed over good money to see – first Priyasakhi and then Paramasivam – in […]