Still some more interviews to come, and write-ups of several films, but here’s a few pictures from the last evening of the New York Indian Film Festival (when Nitin Kakkar’s Filmistaan was the closing film, and then came the awards):
Arjun Mathur talking about Bombay Movie, Fireflies and more
Tell me about Bombay Movie AM: There’s a film I did called Barah Anna, and Alex (Eaton) was, well, I thought she was just shooting the making of, and three years later I learned that she’s made a documentary film on it. I’m so excited. It gives an insight into the process that goes into […]
Monica Dogra: My heart broke a little when Fireflies ended
Tell me about working on Fireflies MD: Fireflies was one of those dream projects where literally there was so much synchronicity and so much energy between everyone, from the spot boys – which is what they call them in India – to the actors, and when it ended, my heart broke a little because I […]
Three films about film at NYIFF
As everyone and his wife have been mentioning today, this is the centenary of the Bombay film industry, and I thought it was a particularly wonderful (planned) coincidence that this year’s IAAC NY Indian Film Festival featured three documentaries about film-making there. May 1st saw a paired screening of Bombay Movie, Alexandra Eaton’s heartfelt and […]
Riz Ahmed: I get pulled aside every time I come here
As part of the press junket for The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a group of seven of us had a roundtable interview with Riz Ahmed (who plays Changez Khan) and Kate Hudson (who plays his girlfriend, Erica). On a purely gossipy notes, one could not help but notice that Ms. Hudson was wearing this massive emerald-cut rock. […]
Midnight’s Children
You gotta give it to Deepa Mehta – the director has guts by the truckload. After having incurred the ire of Hindu conservatives for her film Fire and then again almost a decade later for Water (during the filming of which she had to ditch India and instead shoot in Sri Lanka), she then had […]