Note: Here’s an interview that I did with Kailash Kher that ran in the July 25, 2008 issue of India Abroad. It’s getting close to midnight and Kailash Kher has just emerged from the elevator. As he moves through the hotel lobby, his short curly hair still damp from a shower, the […]
South Asian film fest in NJ this weekend
It’s that time of the year again….. the New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest is underway this weekend at Rutgers University. Films this year are from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Canada, Ireland (whoo hoo!), Nepal, Pakistan, Scotland, Sri Lanka, Tibet, UK and US. Many of the films will include Q & A afterward with […]
Where can you look at Loins?
If you’re in the tri-state area, you can catch the hilarious Loins of Punjab Presents in two cinemas in Manhattan (The Imaginasian and the Quad) as well as over in Jersey at my fave, the Columbia Park 12 in North Bergen, and a cinema in Bloomfield, Connecticut. If you attend the first four NYC shows […]
Loins of Punjab Presents
Despite my best intentions last year, I never got to see the few festival showings of Loins of Punjab Presents in New York. Then I had to endure all the ads on Indian TV when it released there last autumn, knowing that it would still be ages before the film would come this […]
September 11, 2008
Not filmi, but two stunning programs today about that day 7 years ago: Objects and Memory, a documentary running on PBS, about the project of the same name. 102 Minutes that Changed America, Eyewitness to 9/11, running on the History channel.
An embarassment of riches
When drowning one’s sorrows in celluloid, it’s gratifying that some of it is so stellar. Am still buoyed up by recent pleasures such as Rock On, Loins of Punjab Presents, and The Pool. All three very different films, I’d recommend all (though some small, small reservations with Rock On), and will be writing all […]