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 [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, People, Podcast
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 • 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 • Jul 27th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Internet and Telecom India, People, Pune, Video, YouTube Videos
Slumodog Millionaire’s success is proving to be an inspiration for this American production of a Bollywood mini series aptly titled Bollywood Hero.
Bollywood Hero is a 3-part mini series that will air on IFC on August 6th throught 8th 2009 and is presented by Palm. The series stars Chris Kattan, Pooja Kumar, Neha Dhupia, and Maya Rudolph. Others [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 24th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Diaspora, People, YouTube Videos
Bollywood arriba in Espana?
All things Bollywood-related or should I say Indian (remember the Burger King boo-boo in Spain?) has caught on in the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal). Portugal should not come as a surprise when you consider the long and consistent presence of Portuguese in India starting with Vasco Da Gama in the [...]