He has done it once again. He did it with Bollywood films, he did it with his role in Danny Boyle’s Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire. And he has done it with making the crossover from mainstream Indian cinema to mainstream American TV. We are talking about Anil Kapoor, who made his prime time TV debut in the wildly […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Bollywood’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Interviews, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Interviews, People, Podcast, San Francisco
A very Happy New Year to all of you. Thank you all for your support and for sending in your feedback & suggestions via comments, emails and tweets.
As many of you may already know 2009 was a very interesting year, where my show was featured on Mint and NDTV’s websites. I had an […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 12th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Life, Video, YouTube Videos
What you can’t do in real life, you can do in movies commented Bollywood’s film writer Jaideep Sahni in an interview. Sahini’s stories reflect that line of thinking in movies like Khosla Ka Ghosla, Chak De! India and now Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year. For the second time Sahni teamed up with director Shimit […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 7th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Diaspora, People, Video, YouTube Videos
(An edited version of this article was published in India Abroad, July 2009)
Badmash, Ishaara, Dil Se, KYA, Zamana, Dhamaka, Tamasha. No, these are not names of new Bollywood movies. These are the names of Hindi Film Dance (HFD) or Bollywood dance groups from various US universities, and this list does not […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 30th, 2009 • Category: Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, People, YouTube Videos
Indian actress and former beauty queen Leela Naidu (69) passed away earlier this week in Mumbai.Described as one of the most elegant and beautiful Indian actresses Ms. Naidu’s was was a “delicate beauty.” At times she reminded you of Audrey Hepburn. She made her acting debut in 1960 in Anuradha directed by Hrishkesh Mukherjee with […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 27th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Internet and Telecom India, People, Pune, Video, YouTube Videos
Slumodog Millionaire’s success is proving to be an inspiration for this American production of a Bollywood mini series aptly titled Bollywood Hero.
Bollywood Hero is a 3-part mini series that will air on IFC on August 6th throught 8th 2009 and is presented by Palm. The series stars Chris Kattan, Pooja Kumar, Neha Dhupia, and Maya Rudolph. Others […]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
