The 2014 Indo-American Arts Council‘s New York Indian Film Festival kicked off last night at the NYU Skirball Center with Anurag Kashyap’s latest, Ugly. In talking about the primary aim of the festival, the founder and executive director of the IAAC, Aroon Shivdasani said “People think of Indian film, many people think only of music […]
Janet Moran: It was the best thing I’d ever seen
Fourteen years ago, in 2000, when Irish actress Janet Moran was in the Midlands for work, little did she know that she was about to cross paths with one member of the Khan triumvirate. After a recent New York performance of Swing, the play that the Dublin native she co-wrote with fellow actor Steve Blount […]
Gurinder, Zohra and the NYIFF
This past Sunday dancer and actress Zohra Segal turned 102. Having passed the 100 year mark, Zohra-ji now counts among her many other distinctions that of being the first actor from the Dr. Who series who is a centenarian. Over the course of her remarkable life, Zohra Segal has toured the world with the Uday […]
The Lunchbox
On the morning commute to the office, while staring out the window and watching the scenery roll by, an image came into my head out of the blue, of the interior of a Druk Air Airbus making its approach to Paro Airport on a sunny day – and the following scene: little Yashvi is in […]
The Lunchbox Approaches
Hot off the film’s screenings at Sundance, as the countdown to the U.S. release date (February 28) for Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox intensifies, a wonderfully edited (and subtitled) trailer has been released. It’s about time! Prior to this, whenever I tried to tell to friends and acquaintances about it, the only snippets I could find […]
Friday night at SAIFF 2013
A few photos from the stellar line-up at SAIFF 2013 last night. When I arrived at the festival yesterday, there was a spillover crowd in the lobby of the NYIT building looking for tickets to Good morning, Karachi, and I think many went home with no joy, because the theater was full to capacity. […]