Chak De India hoarding

Talk about synchronicity….the same day that I was chatting with my girlfriends about the movie and its original rhyming five-minute trailer (general consensus: we’re all looking forward to it, I’m not wild about the patchy  stubble on SRK, and the rhyming gimmick got on everyone’s nerves, fast),  Bombay Addict sends me this photo, taken en […]

Author-Blogger Book Discussion: Anupama Chopra

  Hello everyone and welcome to [this transcript of] our virtual, multi-country, multi-continent event to discuss Anupama Chopra’s latest book:   The King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema.     The book – which traces Shah Rukh Khan’s career from his young days in Delhi to his pervasive […]

Thanks a lot, Forest City Ratner

  The Indian movie multiplex in North Bergen –  Cineplaza  –  and recent home to both Jhoom Barabar Jhoom and Sivaji (in Tamil and Telugu), has just closed up shop. The reason:     $ $ $ You can read more here. And some references  here, for part of a story I did last year […]

Irrfan Khan interview

  He received praise all around for his role of the Ganguli patriarch in The Namesake, he took on a very lighthearted and comic role in Metro, and now Irrfan Khan is winning praise for his portrayal of the Captain in A Mighty Heart.   Here’s the first part of a recent interview with him: […]

8 Random Things

  about me… Yes, this is one of those tagging thingies. Atanu, who, though he does not understand and detests my filmi leanings, is a friend nonetheless and the one who got me. According to his own blog post, here are the rules of the tagged game : 1. Each player starts with 8 random […]