Our Family Wedding is a funny movie about family and weddings. Angelenos Lucia Ramirez (America Ferrera) and Marcus Boyd (Lance Gross) meet and fall in love while studying at Columbia University. The fun begins when the two lovers decide to head back home to Los Angeles and get married in a small wedding ceremony. Neither of them […]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 12th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, People
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, People, Podcast
AR Rahman won 2 Oscars in 2009 for his music composition and song in Slumdog Millionaire.
If you like, you can listen to a podcast of this interview .
This is Kamla Bhatt. We bring you the second part of our conversation with Oscar-nominated music composer AR Rahman. AR has been nominated for three Oscars for his […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Chennai/Madras, India, People, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos
This is a 2-part interview with Oscar winner AR Rahman. An intensely private person, AR was pretty candid in this 2-part interview where he talks about his journey as a musician. AR entered the Indian film industry as a young boy, and through sheer hard work and determination rose to become one of the […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, India, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos
This is Kamla Bhatt and today my guest is Danny Boyle who is director of Slumdog Millionaire, the surprise movie of 2008 that has won four Golden Globe awards and has won 10 Oscar nominations. The New York Time Magazine called Slumdog Millionaire “The ultimate Danny Boyle movie”. The film had a shoe string budget […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, People, San Francisco, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
(A version of this article was originally published in Open Magazine, June 6, 2009.)
(Charlie Chaplin is an icon in India. Curiously in the state of Uttar Pradesh in North India Chaplin is often referred to as “Chaliss Chaplin.” Like many kids I grew up watching Chaplin movies. Every time my dad saw Chaplin he would invariably comment: “This […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, People, Video, YouTube Videos
Director Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland in 3D is very different from Lewis Carroll’s original books Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. Don’t go looking for Carroll’s version of Alice in Wonderland in this movie. Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland is instead inspired by the works of Carroll, where we meet a […]
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. 
