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 [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, India, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Interviews, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos
He has done it once again. He did it with Bollywood films, he did it with his role in Danny Boyle’s Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire. And he has done it with making the crossover from mainstream Indian cinema to mainstream American TV. We are talking about Anil Kapoor, who made his prime time TV debut in the wildly [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Interviews, People, Podcast, San Francisco
A very Happy New Year to all of you. Thank you all for your support and for sending in your feedback & suggestions via comments, emails and tweets.
As many of you may already know 2009 was a very interesting year, where my show was featured on Mint and NDTV’s websites. I had an [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 23rd, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, Interviews, People
This evening the cast and crew of Slumdog Millionaire made a clean sweep at the Oscars by winning 8 awards out of 10 nominations. The tone for the evening was set when Simon Beaufoy, who wrote the screenplay won the first Oscars. The second half of the show was dominated by Slumdog Millionaire.Slumdog Millionaire won the Oscar [...]
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 • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, Global Voices, India, People
For my latest post in Global Voices, I wrote a quick round-up about what bloggers in India had to say about Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. The movie got mixed reviews in India. I must confess that I liked the movie for its edgy portrait of Mumbai and the message of hope and optimism. Maybe that [...]