A school of thought believes that the West must be won over. He has done that with his multiple Oscars. A school of thought believes that East is best. He has a plethora of Filmfare awards and Bollywood recognition to have put his flag there. The purist school feels it is all about classical study. He has his music credentials from Trinity. The non conformists feel that music cannot be taught. His... 

He was the voice behind ROCK MACHINE, which in it’s time had cult like success in India. They played across the nation and overseas. When ROCK MACHINE, then evolved into INDUS CREED, UDAY BENEGAL continued to be it’s “voice.” Then at the height of their prowess, the group disbanded, Uday went West. Now he is back in Mumbai and India A new group, but the same resonating voice, which we also... 

How likely is it that a family moves from Pune, India to Southern United States, probably has very little to do with the entertainment world, and yet their offspring chooses a career in acting and starts off by being in an Oscar winning short film, the West Bank Story? Very likely, if you are Noureen Dewulf and like to challenge yourself every so often. Noureen has since gone on to play varied characters... 

A couple of months back, Siddharth Kumar’s Semshook, played to critical acclaim at the San Jose Film Festival, Cinequest. Siddharth had earlier made the very likeable and different, Let’s Enjoy. Here we catch up with Siddharth, his wife, actress Roshni Chopra and the writer of the film, Sudip Sharma. What was the motivation for making this film, an Indian living in Bollywood, making a film which... 

FADE IN: EXT & INT: The Man Who Dreamt And The Man Who Dared! Bollywood has some of the most difficult barriers, mostly built by it’s self enacted gatekeepers, in any industry in any part of the globe. Filmi families, old school thinking, star fascination despite incurring a loss of Rs 3500 crore in 2009, casting couch, irrational thought processes, etc, etc. The higher the barriers, the greater... 

Sabrina Dhawan was a college student in Columbia University, when she presented the script of Monsoon Wedding to Mira Nair. From there on this film won the fancy of the entire nation and became one of the highest grossing movie of it’s times. Not one to repeat things, Sabrina, went on to write the critically acclaimed, Cosmopolitan and then late last year and early in 2010, two wonderful Bollywood... 

Lets work in the reverse gear here. Now there is the film, MY NAME IS KHAN, there are the actors, the director, the song, etc. But before all this, it must have been the writer, who looked around and decided, away from all the fame and noise, perhaps in solitude or perhaps amongst people, that this story and these characters, had to be created and brought to the large screen. Here we probe that mind,... 

Whether it is in her firebrand performances as an actor, her directorial debut, in the way she chooses to live her life, the soul has to be fulfilled first, for one of India’s finest actors. Even if there was no more to Nandita, than being an actor, it would have been a cup full of talent, and life lived on her own terms. But there is more, the cup is overflowing, what with her Masters degree in...