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...Thursday, March 25, 2010
Ah yes, Spring is finally here… The crocuses are beginning to poke their buds out of the recently defrosted ground, the first flowers are blooming on the trees in shades of yellow and pink, the squirrels are busily transporting their nutty catch of the day up to their nests and we get the first peaks [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 19, 2010
In this age of world turmoil, where every other headline is about war, destruction, abuse of power and the hatred of multiple individuals for their neighbors, William Shakespeare has become a voice as contemporary and true as when his plays were first written for the audiences of Elizabethan England. Personally, I have recently been privy to [...]
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...Thursday, November 5, 2009
The South Asian International Film Festival came to a close with a bang last night. Featuring the North American premiere of India’s official entry to the Oscars for 2010 ‘Harishchandrachi Factory’ — a beautiful Marathi film which chronicles the struggles of the man who made India’s first motion picture in 1913 — the evening started [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Once Fall descends on NYC, I typically retire into my own cocoon of spending way more time indoors, taking long baths, eating pumpkin pie and indulging in the pleasure of watching movies. There is nothing more fabulous in my book than a day spent watching the latest blockbuster or most talked about indie hit. Thankfully [...]
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
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