Dev Benegal’s visually stunning and spellbinding film ‘Road, Movie’ is already groundbreaking in so many ways. The film has gone all around the world, won accolades at some of the most prestigious festivals like Berlin, Toronto and Cannes and enjoyed a full run in Indian cinemas. Most adventures would contentedly end there. But just as [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 15, 2010
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...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...Friday, November 13, 2009
Every once in a long long while, a film comes along that simply defies all rules and successfully makes us look at things from a different prospective. Raja Menon’s gritty and powerful ‘Barah Aana’ — which will have an official NYC Premiere on Saturday, November 14th as part of the MIAAC film festival — is [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
You may think from reading this blog that month after month, week after week, day after day it’s just one big party for me… You’re not far from the truth, but the only problem with this kind of lifestyle is that, after a while, every great cause, every wonderful event begins to blend in with [...]
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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