When I spotted actress, model and producer Poorna Jagannathan (who played the kick-ass and worldly journo in Delhi Belly) at the opening night of the Indo-American Arts Council‘s NYIFF on May 1st, 2013, I asked her what else she had coming up. In addition to her role in Yeh Jawani Hai Diwani, she told me […]
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Ugly: post-screening talkback with Anurag Kashyap & Rahul Bhatt
Following the opening night screening of Ugly at this year’s NYIFF, director Anurag Kashyap and lead actor Rahul Bhatt joined journalist and festival programmer Aseem Chhabra on stage at the NYU Skirball Center to discuss the film. Both the director and actor have been nominated for NYIFF awards. Here’s a summary of that talk: Aseem […]
Ugly
The 2014 NYIFF opened Monday night with director Anurag Kashap’s latest film, Ugly, a disturbing study of several lives unraveling simultaneously and revealing the ugliness inside of each. A 10-year-old girl vanishes from a busy street in Bombay. She’s been left alone in the car by her father, Rahul, a struggling actor, while he goes […]