Rediff reports that AB 2.0 and the glacial Miss Ash – Bachchans père et mère too – have been to see a particular astrologer several times while filming Guru, and word has been leaked that the World’s Most Beautiful Couple will tie the knot in 2007. All well and good, but I want to know […]
IAAC Film Festival Line-up
Here are the titles being screened at the Indo-American Arts Council Sixth Film Festival. The opening night film is Mira Nair’s The Namesake on Wednesday night, the 1st of November, and the closing night film (on Sunday, 5th of November) is Backwaters, set in Kerala. At the press conference hosted at the […]
Art Malik in NYC
Well, on screen at least. He was Hari Kumar in the Beeb’s Jewel in the Crown. Later he went on to do the best book-on-tape I’ll ever own (The Moor’s Last Sigh), and since then is almost never seen in anything in the U.S. (let’s not mention that terrorist turn in a certain […]
Don – the Chase Begins Again
Well, who knew? My only motivation for going to theater tonight were (1) the excitement of seeing a Diwali hit on Thursday night at 8pm (EST) while India is still waking up and the cinemas there have yet to open, and (2) the picturization of the Ganapati Morya Re song. I mean, come on, […]
Interview: Tejaswini Ganti, Pt 1
Tejaswini Ganti, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University and author of Bollywood, A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema, was one of the academics presenting a paper at the conference hosted by NYU earlier this year. The subject of the conference was The Social and Material Life of Indian Cinema, and it was […]