Archives for the ‘Entertainment’ Category

In Conversation With Ameen Sayani - Final Episode

By kamla bhatt • Sep 11th, 2007 • Category: Bollywood, Entertainment, Featured, India, Mumbai, People
 
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In this final episode of our conversation Mr. Sayani talks about his friendship with music director Roshan, who is Hrithik Roshan’s grandfather.
We also get to hear Mr. Sayani’s thoughts about the quality of the current radio shows in India.
Besides radio what keeps Mr. Sayani occupied these days? It is a new project called “Crisis […]



In Conversation With Shekhar Kapur Part-2

By kamla bhatt • Sep 1st, 2007 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Entertainment, India, London, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
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In Part-2 of our conversation with Director/Writer Shekhar Kapur he talks about technology, new media, comics and his future film projects.
Shekhar is an avid blogger and shares his thoughts on why he blogs. He is also fascinated with technology and new media and is in talks with the creators of Second Life for […]



In Conversation With Shekhar Kapur Part-1

By kamla bhatt • Aug 26th, 2007 • Category: Bollywood, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, India, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
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Director/Writer Shekhar Kapur talks about his passion: films.
He talks about his early years and how he made the transition to films. Did the fact that his uncles were well-known film personalities influence him? His uncles are Chetan Anand, Dev Anand and Vijay Anand.
Did you know that it took him 12 years to make […]



Anupama Chopra on Bollywood Part-2

By kamla bhatt • Aug 3rd, 2007 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Entertainment, Featured, India, People
 
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In Part-2 of our conversation Anupama Chopra talks about Bollywood, and how she developed her interest in tinsel town. Anupama’s mother Kamna Chandra wrote the story for Raj Kapoor’s Prem Rog and Yash Chopra’s Chandini among others. Did the fact that her mother was a writer influence her?
Anupama also talks about Aditya Chopra and others […]