Browsing: Cinema

  Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Deepa Mehta – The Three Bhenjis in The Big Apple THREE FOR THE PRICE OF…

Share

Dev Patel in Monkey Man Dev Patel is Monkey Man in This Action Thriller For all the Dev Patel fans…

The special attraction of Bollywood at its best is the star charisma of its lead performers – Hrithik Roshan & Deepika Padukone in ‘Fighter’

Ben Kingsley nothing is ever forgotten or lost – just filed away for the future.
“I am fascinated by people. I love watching them. I do have a vast memory bank and I can access them,” says Kingsley. “It’s a very lucky gift that I have, being able to absorb things.

Shah Rukh Khan has many personas in his latest film ‘Jawan’ and you’ll get to see them all this month in this action thriller

NYIFF –  The Stories of Our Lives on the Big Screen Cinema, Cinema and Bollywood Stars too! Missing the joy…

Naatu Naatu wins an Oscar – and a live performance on the Academy stage! RRR was by far my most…

The Elephant Whisperers bagged Oscars for best short documentary for Guneet Monga and Kartiki Gonsalves

A Place in the Oscar sun for South Asians

Neena Gupta just turned sixty – and she’s having the time of her life. As she says, “It’s a great time to be a woman in the film industry!”

For all those who’ve watched King Khan, the Badshah of Bollywood, dance and sing and romance over the years, Shah Rukh Khan’s talk at Yale was one of a kind, a look at the real man, rather than the reel man.

Un-awed by the pomp and ceremony of being honored with the prestigious Chubb Fellowship, he was down-to-earth and funny, talking one on one to Yale students, as someone human and humane, a striver, a dreamer and a parent.
Here, Shah Rukh Khan, in his own words….

Along with the swaying fields of golden mustard and a folksy gulguppa philosophy ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, an official Indian adaptation of the iconic Hollywood film ‘Forrest Gump’, has its own colorful personality.

Ritwik Ghatak’s films are frenetic, heartfelt and heartbreaking, as agonized and without any final answers as life and existence itself. Yet with their tales of partition and loss, of refugees and homelessness, of changing families, of pain and ultimately hope, they touch a chord within contemporary audiences and are relevant even – perhaps especially – now.

RRR takes you back to when you were a kid and movies were the real deal, a magic potion where you were held totally captive by action, high drama, enchantment and raw emotions.

The much-awaited New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) which is presented by the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC)  – a must-see during the summer – is once again coming to town. This time, with the changing times, it is a hybrid model with films being shown by zoom and also in person.

Melanie Chandra and Surina Jindal star in the first Diwali holiday movie – Hot Mess Holiday and strike a first with South Asian actors and an Indian festival theme on Comedy Central

Deepa Mehta to direct Burnt Sugar

For movie buffs, it’s been hard to get Sushant Singh Rajput out of our collective heads. I’ve taken to Youtube to catch bits of his life and try to piece together the reasons for that abandonment of life and living. It’s hard to think of a person in that state of mind, alone in the pandemic.

Dil Bechara – Sushant Singh Rajput’s last film is a poignant, bitter-sweet experience, a last goodbye to the young actor who died in June.