It came as a shock to hear that Nirmal Pandey passed away earlier today. He apparently suffered from a heart attack earlier this evening in India and lost his life.
A talented actor and an alum of India’s National School of Drama, Pandey made his mark in theatre before migrating to the silver screen. It was in [...]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Bollywood’
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos
This is an excellent 2-part interview of Kabir Bedi by Riz Khan that is definitely worth watching.
There are very few actors like Kabir Bedi in Indian cinema. Bedi has all the trappings of a polished film star. He has the dashing looks, the deep baritone voice and the elegance. As if that were not sufficient, he [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Interviews, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos
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 [...]
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 [...]