Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Bollywood’

By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, People, YouTube Videos

Michael Jackson, King of Pop, who passed away at the age of 50 earlier today exerted a huge influence on Bollywood and Indian film industry. It is difficult to ignore Jackson’s influence on Bollywood and Indian films. Just go back to the 1980s and watch the movies and you will clearly see Jackson’s influence. Not […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 26th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Bollywood, India, People

Bollywood actor Feroz Khan (70) passed away earlier today according to The Hindustan Times. He was suffering from cancer. He is survived by his son Bollywood actor Fardeen and daughter Laila.
 
Khan was the oldest of the original “Khan brothers.” His younger brother are Sanjay (his daughter Suzanne is married to Bollywood Hrithik Roshan), Akbar and  Sameer Khan. 
 
Born and brought up in Bangalore Feroz was born to a Pathan father and […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, New York, People, Video, YouTube Videos

In India movie stars and filmmakers wield enormous influence and that point was drawn dramatically by Danny Boyle in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Hint: it is the toilet scene. Interestingly, the entertainment industry, (especially Bollywood or the Hindi film industry based in Mumbai)  involvement in Indian politics was pretty marginal with a few a actors […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bangalore, Bollywood, India, People, Web 2.0

On April 16th, 2009 the first phase of the voting for the Indian general elections will begin and conclude on May 13th, 2009. This is the 15th general elections in India since it became independent in 1947.
There are 714 million people that are eligible to vote. About 1,368,430 electronic voting machines have been deployed across […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 7th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Diaspora, People, Podcast, YouTube Videos

Hollywood actor Kal Penn joins US President Obama’s administration as EW.com first reported. This news was confirmed earlier today by the White House. Kal Penn will be part of the White House Office of Public Liason office and will involve reaching out to the India-American aka desi and Pacific Islander communities in the US.
Post Mira […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 29th, 2009 • Category: Bollywood, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos

This recent article from Times Online caught my eye: Battle of Bollywood as stars take sides in Indian poll. The article caught my eyes for two reasons. One was when they spoke about  South Indian actress Nandita Morarji being tapped by Sonia Gandhi of the Congress Party. I thought I knew my South Indian film history, […]