Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Bombay/Mumbai’

By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, India, New Delhi

I guess this should not come as a surprise that both Delhi and Mumbai rank pretty low in a global survey when it comes to the quality of air and water. These are two key, free natural resources (dunno if water is still considered that) that are important when it comes to quality of life.
According […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 24th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bombay/Mumbai, Food, Google, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom India, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, User Generated Content, Video

In this Sunday’s column of TechLife in Financial Express I spoke about the power of word of mouth marketing. An old marketing concept, how has word of mouth marketing morphed in this tech savvy world filled with gadgets, gizmos, blogs, video blogs, online reviews etc?
Here is the link to the article in Financial Express.
I did […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 22nd, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos

Manorama was the quintessential vamp or the bad woman of Hindi cinema. Perhaps, you might remember her from Deepa Mehta’s Water, where she played the role of the corrupt and nasty old head of the widow’s ashram? If not, here is a YouTube clip from Deepa Mehta’s Water with Manorama.

Water was the last film Manorama […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Dubai, Events, India, People

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt married Manyata earlier this week. And from what the media is reporting this event was not without its share of controversy. Apparently Dutt’s sisters did not know of the wedding and were not present either at the civil ceremony in Goa or the brief wedding that was held in Mumbai earlier […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 21st, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bangalore, Bombay/Mumbai, Business, Ideas, India, Technology

Hollywood’s DreamWorks Animation (DWA) will soon have a Bangalore connection via Paprikaas Interactive.
DreamWorks Animation has signed a deal with Technicolor Services to “develop an animation facility” in Bangalore reports the Financial Times. Earlier this year Technicolor Services invested in Bangalore-based Paprikaas Interactive, which specializes in animation, VFX and game development. Technicolor Services is […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 5th, 2007 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Technology

The Indian mobile landscape is on the verge of a huge change, and therein lies a tale. I suspect the fight within the walled garden is a pretty intense one. The fight is between the GSM and CDMA operators, and about spectrum allocation and GSM license to CDMA operators (read Reliance). However, what we end up seeing or reading is a […]