Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Americas’

By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 2nd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Diaspora, People, Video

I was really looking forward to watching M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. I was curious to see how Shyamalan translates this hugely popular Nickelodeon series into a movie. I was also curious to see The Last Airbender in 3D since that was not in the original plan. You see the success of James Cameron’s [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 25th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, People, YouTube Videos

It was the laughter that caught my attention. Nay, it was the people howling with laughter that caught my attention and had me from the start. You see I was late & therefore missed the first 1o minutes of Grown Ups. That laughter was like a chorus from the audience and continued for the next [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 23rd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, People, Video, YouTube Videos

Today is Billy Wilder’s birthday. If Wilder’s name rings a bell it is probably because you may have seen one of his well-crafted movies. A writer, director and producer Wilder made some of the most memorable movies in Hollywood and along the way collected a clutch of Oscars. Wilder was an influential figure and an invisible mentor [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 18th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, People

Where do I begin with Pixar’s Toy Story 3?  I connected with the movie at so many levels. Many years from now we will look back and probably label Toy Story 3 as a master piece and a film that captured a world in transition from a analog (traditional) to a digital lifestyle. The world of [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 18th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, New York, People

What was the last Michael Douglas movie you saw? Ah! ha! struggling to come up with a name right? That is because Douglas has acted in just a handful of films in the last few years. But, Douglas is back this summer with two movies: Solitary Man and the much-awaited sequel to Wall Street (1987) where he essayed [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 11th, 2010 • Category: Americas, People

Jaden is the the star of the movie. Something tells me that we are going to seeing more of Jaden through the years