No way is she 81. That’s the first thing I thought as Rita Moreno sprang onto the little stage at the 86th street Barnes and Noble tonight, petite and wiry. She’s more bright-eyed and alert than I think I ever was on any given day in my 20s. She can’t possibly be 81. But then, […]
Not reluctant at all about Mira’s next
If you start out with a well-regarded novel by an even more well-regarded author, then you add a gifted director who determines to make aforementioned novel into a film, for which she assembles a solid cast, then you wouldn’t be wrong in expecting great things, which I do. Mira Nair’s latest film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, […]
Some Dublin photos
Hello again after a very long time…… After extolling the virtues of visiting Dublin in winter in this piece for the January issue of JetWings, I went over for a winter break myself. Here’s a few pictures from the trip: Sweet little flowers that I’d never seen before: I guess you know you’re close […]
Reema Kagti interview
Reema Kagti caught a lot of people’s attention with the first film she wrote and directed, the quirky, fun Honeymoon Travels Private Ltd. in 2007. She also co-wrote Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara with friend and collaborator Zoya Akhtar. (And if you look carefully, you can see her appear very briefly in the audience at one […]
At this year’s Imagine Science Film Festival
Some South Asian and Irish connections at this year’s Imagine Science Film Festival in NYC: Visions by Justin Singh Restoring Sight in Bangladesh by Tatiana McCabe Creature Cast: Lancet Liver Fluke by Pathikrit Bhattacharyya And from Ireland, Darragh O’ Connell’s 23 degrees, 5 minutes More details about the festival can be found here.
Anurag Kashyap on Aiyyaa: In Bollywood, people only watch regional films if they’re hits
Here’s the full interview I did with Anurag Kashyap when working on this profile of Prithviraj last week: When and how did you get involved with this project? I pushed Sachin to write it and make a feature out of it three years back, he’s been working on it since then. Sachin approached Prithviraj two […]