The US spends half a trillion dollars on oil every year according to Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place. Some think cheap gas is an inalienable right given by the US constitution quipped Agassi. So, given our nation’s addiction to oil, how do we break out of this habit? What are the alternatives out there? [...]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Video’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 17th, 2010 • Category: Ideas, Infrastructure, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos, silicon valley
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 16th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Hollywood Films, People, Video, YouTube Videos
“I am the most skilled extractor,” says Leonardo DiCaprio in Chris Nolan’s Inception . “You taught me to navigate people’s mind,” DiCaprio says to Michael Caine, his mentor and father-in-law in the film. “The truth is it is Nolan who is the skilled extractor and navigator. It is Nolan who got the best out of [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 3rd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, India, People, Video
Admit it, you paused for a minute when you read “storys” instead of stories when you saw the title I Hate Love Storys. Why was “Storys” spelt/spelled that way? Was there a missing apostrophe or did someone make a typo when registering the title of the film? Or, maybe it was a deliberate ploy to [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 2nd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Diaspora, People, Video
I was really looking forward to watching M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. I was curious to see how Shyamalan translates this hugely popular Nickelodeon series into a movie. I was also curious to see The Last Airbender in 3D since that was not in the original plan. You see the success of James Cameron’s [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 23rd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, People, Video, YouTube Videos
Today is Billy Wilder’s birthday. If Wilder’s name rings a bell it is probably because you may have seen one of his well-crafted movies. A writer, director and producer Wilder made some of the most memorable movies in Hollywood and along the way collected a clutch of Oscars. Wilder was an influential figure and an invisible mentor [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 5th, 2010 • Category: Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos
Raajneeti. There is a powerful ring to that term. Raajneeti, which means politics or statesmanship is the name of the latest movie produced, directed and written by Prakash Jha. A talented storyteller Jha has carved out a niche for himself in Bollywood or Hindi cinema for making movies with powerful social themes like he did in Mrityudand [...]