So the much anticipated Hrithik Roshan – Barbara Mori film has launched last week, and landed in the Top 10 list of films released in the US and has grossed over 65 crores worldwide in its first weekend. To someone like me, who learned Spanish as an impressionable tween while watching Mexican soap operas (as […]
Bombay Cinema series at Lincoln Center
We really have it made here in NYC”¦..one day Hrithik Roshan is walking the red carpet for the premiere of his latest release (more on that later), and another day Lincoln Center is launching yet another series of Indian films. Yesterday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in partnership with the IAAC and the Indian […]
AR Rahman’s Flying Visit to NYC
Yesterday, AR Rahman appeared at the K-Lounge of Bombay Palace restaurant and then at the Asia Society in two separate events to announce his summer series of concerts – called the Jai Ho Concerts: Journey Home World Tour – kicking off in the US on June 11th at Nassau Coliseum. More info on dates […]
No LSD in the USA
After hearing Anupama Chopra’s favorable of review of Love Sex aur Dhokha last Friday, I was really looking forward to catching it this week. Imagine my surprise when I checked the Big Cinemas website for show times and saw it wasn’t showing here. In fact it wasn’t showing anywhere in the US. When I […]
Please, Mark Thompson, don’t take away my Raj & Pablo
I don’t know how many years it’s been since I started listening to the BBC Asian Network, but it’s been a while now. I loved this station from the get-go for all the bhangra and the chat shows and the radio soap opera, and soon I was listening to it at work and downloading […]
More Shahrukh and Kajol pix
The Big Media Event yesterday was more calm and orderly than I expected. For some reason, I thought there’d be mass pandemonium and much pushing and yelling, based on the last time I was in the same room with SRK (that would be last August, the same night as his Velcome-to-Amrika experience at Newark […]