In India movie stars and filmmakers wield enormous influence and that point was drawn dramatically by Danny Boyle in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Hint: it is the toilet scene. Interestingly, the entertainment industry, (especially Bollywood or the Hindi film industry based in Mumbai) involvement in Indian politics was pretty marginal with a few a actors [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, New York, People, Video, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 5th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, People, Podcast
The Kamla Show is collaborating with NDTV.com. We will be creating an interesting mix of interviews from our life and people channels for NDTV.com. We are launching with an interview with British Director Danny Boyle of Slumdog Millionaire.
In this exclusive interview Danny talks about the making of Slumdog Millionaire in Mumbai, whether this is an [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, People
Guess who is the latest Bollywood blogger? Salman Khan aka the “Shirtless Wonder.” He started blogging recently at DusKadum.
All of a sudden it seems like blogging is quite the rage in Bollywood and I wonder who is helping or advising these Bollywood starts on their social media strategy? I am curious to know why instead [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 5th, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, Chinidia, India, Life
Here is this week’s roundup for GlobalVoices from virtual India.
It seems like Tibet refuses to go away from people’s mind. Tibet continues to be the dominant topic of conversation and is clearly gathering a lot of public support, especially in virtual India. Baichung Bhutia, India’s well-known football player has refused to carry the Olympic torch [...]