Here are a few quick shots from this afternoon’s press conference at Fox with Shahrukh Khan and Kajol, here to promote My Name is Khan: More later…
New Disney release of Taare Zameen Par
Full disclosure, I have to admit that I was really reluctant to watch Taare Zameen Par again, on the occasion of the Disney release of the film on DVD last week, now containing an English track and a director’s commentary plus other extra features. I had purposely avoided Mr. Khan’s pet project when it […]
How awful to be gori…
Have look at this Bharat Matrimony ad I saw on TV this past weekend….and just watch Grandmama’s reaction ( :14 ) when she finds out her lovely grandson is bringing home a “gori” to meet the family. Poor dear, she looks as though someone had just dropped a dead, smelly rat at her […]
When the Denver Nuggets met B’wood
On November 24th, at the Denver Nuggets – NJ Nets game halftime, Denver dance doyenne (and instructor) Renu Kansal took to the floor of the Pepsi Center with her Bollywood West troupe to perform. I had been anticipating this event almost as much as they all had, since Renu had entrusted Top Secret discussions of […]
Tonight only: D’Arranged Marriage
You might have seen a story I did over the summer about D’Arranged Marriage and its co-creators, New Zealanders Tarun Mohanbhai and Rajeev Varma. The show did a run in the Village earlier this year, then Raj and Tarun had a reunion in London, and more recently, Raj took the one-man show to the heart […]
Santosh Sivan as never seen before
I had heard that Santosh Sivan was going to step over to the other side of the camera and take the lead role in a Malayalam film about the life of artist and Travancore native Raja Ravi Varma, and sure enough, the man emailed two pics of himself in full make-up and costume. Have a […]