When people ask me why I love India so much, I am often at a loss for words. Have always felt that question is simply too complex to answer in just a few sentences. But that was before I watched Dev Benegal’s ‘Road, Movie’. More than any other film from or about the Desh, Benegal’s [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 8, 2010
If you think that visiting the highly anticipated and wonderfully attended Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles is a cinematic luxury reserved only for those who live in or around the City of Angels, you are mistaken. In fact, one of the appeals of the festival for me has always been its location, beckoning all [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 4, 2010
On the anniversary of Rahul Dev Burman death — January 4th, 1994 — also known as the beloved composer of most of our lives’ soundtracks, I wanted to share a special film which is now available to all on a collector’s DVD from Shemaroo. I have been fortunate enough to have caught ‘Pancham Unmixed’ on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 22, 2009
When I first watched Saurabh Shukla’s ‘Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi?’ back in November — during the South Asian International Film Festival in NYC where it won the Audience Choice Award for Favorite Feature — my expectations were incredibly high. First of all, the film’s producer, co-writer and lead actor Rajat Kapoor is quite simply one [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Do you remember that last day of school, back in 10th or 11th grade, when you knew you were free to do as you pleased for the summer, yet would not be seeing most of your friends — and lets not forget crushes! — until the beginning of the next school year? Well, the closing [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council film festival officially began its illuminating journey this past Thursday with a press conference at the Aicon Gallery in downtown Manhattan. Delivering the ‘dulcis in fundo’ of film festivals — which magically appears to heat up the fall here in the Big Apple — Aroon Shivdasani’s ORIGINAL South Asian cinematic [...]
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