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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bollywood’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 3rd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, India, People, Video
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 [...]
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 • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos
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 [...]