For my latest post in Global Voices, I wrote a quick round-up about what bloggers in India had to say about Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. The movie got mixed reviews in India. I must confess that I liked the movie for its edgy portrait of Mumbai and the message of hope and optimism. Maybe that [...]
Archive for January, 2009
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, Global Voices, India, People
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, India, People, The New York Times, YouTube Videos
Hollywood movie makers wants a share of the Indian film industry. Warner Bros appears to have gone all out in marketing their first Bollywood commercial film: Chandni Chowk to China or CC2C as the film is called in India. The film opens in the USA today and stars Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Roger [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 12th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, India, People
Slumdog Millionaire won 4 Golden Globe Award for best picture, best director, music and screenplay.
British director Danny Boyle won the award for directing this independent film, film composer AR Rahman won the award for best musical score and Simon Beoufy won for the best screenplay based on Vikas Swarup’s novel Q&A.
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 12th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Books and Authors, Diaspora, People, Video, YouTube Videos
AR Rahman won the People’s Critics Award for best music composer for director Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire in early January 2009. It is unsurprising that AR Rahman won the award giving the dynamic composition of the musical track for the film, which plays a pivot role in the film almost like it does [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 8th, 2009 • Category: Business, Ideas, India, Technology
January 7, 2009 will go down as a black day in corporate India for this was the day India was hit by its first major market/corporate scandal leading to the collapse of the stock of a major Indian IT corporate house. Ramalinga Raju, founder and Chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India’s 4th largest [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 1st, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison
Here is wishing you all a wonderful and happy 2009. Here is a toast to a better 2009 to all of us.