After having listened to, and loved, a mix version of Kya Mujhe Pyar Hai for ages and ages now, I finally got to watch Woh Lamhe this weekend. This is latest Mahesh Bhatt movie about his relationship with the beautiful and tragic Parveen Babi.    (There were two or so other  Bhatts involved in […]

  Director Tanuj Chopra’s touching drama about Elmhurst-based teenager Mameet’s loss of his brother at a  robbery in the family’s convenience store  will be screened this Friday night (February 2nd) at the Museum of the Moving Image, located just over the 59th street bridge in Astoria.       The movie starts at 7.30pm and […]

Let’s see, the microphone dipped and appeared onscreen in several shots, the acting was too low key by some actors and too over the top by others, and worst of all, the whole direction the film takes hinges on a misunderstanding that could have easily been cleared up way earlier than it was. This film […]

  Ok, it’s not Bollywood, nor indie, but it does have a lead desi actor – Kal Penn – who we’re seeing more and more of, and with a big release – The Namesake – just around the corner. I thought this was going to be a total frat boy, asinine joke fest (think American […]

  Honestly, I had never heard of this 2003 movie  until Michael of Bollywoodblog contacted me about joining in today with nine  fellow  bloggers in Europe and the U.S. for a group review of the film, and virtual meeting with director Sanjay Jha. Participating in this exercise are: from Austria: Baba aur Bollywood from Germany: […]

I finally found the missing link.   While  almost all of AB 2.0’s recent work is pretty solid (other than  his sleepwalk in last year’s  Sarkar), after having seen  Refugee and Kuch Naa Kaho I didn’t really want to see more  of the early movies from  his filmography, though  I had wondered how he got […]