Thank you, Rajkumar Hirani. While you might not have done a director’s commentary on the 3 Idiots DVD that was released today here in the US from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, nor did you include a full-on “making of” documentary type feature that was an hour or two in length, what you did do was […]

Friends, here are some rather rushed initial thoughts from the road, trying to get these online before the coffee shop and its Wifi close down…. Something happens to me when we’re at the beginning of spring, and the days are getting warmer. A movie will come along that offers a welcome glimpse of summer for […]

One of the films I’m most anticipating once we get through the current World Cup-induced film drought is Rohan Sippy’s Dum Maaro Dum. If his Bluffmaster was anything to go by – and given that this flic will star Abhishek Bachchan, Prateik Babbar and Aditya Pancholi – then I think it may well be a […]

Well, well, I just heard that the DVD of the huge Christmas 2009 hit 3 Idiots – starring Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani and Kareena Kapoor – will be available through various US outlets next month. Starting on April 26, it can be found at Target, Amazon and FYE, among others. The DVD […]

In all publicity and reviews of the film, you will see references to Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries) being the debut of Kiran Rao as a director, and while technically true – this is the first feature film she has directed – it feels like a lie to call it a debut, because Ms. Rao has […]

A gorgeous and unusually long trailer for Dhobi Ghat (just shy of four minutes): Have a look at this and at the film’s website.   These folks at Aamir Khan Productions really get the promotional side of the business (and I mean that in a good way, not as the usual snarky “Aamir’s a genius […]