Rahul, your cinema can neither be classified as Arthouse, not pure commercial Bollywood, it is somewhere in between? Popular, yet not totally commercial? Is that a conscious decision? My definition of an Arthouse film is something that is not formulic. It’s one where you don’t know what’s coming next. In that respect Mr & Mrs Iyer is not Arthouse, you know what the ride is about, what’s... 

Caught a screening of the eagerly avaited Mumbai Meri Jaan, and have to  admit, if this was about the spirit of Mumbai, then one came out of the  theater feeling very dispirited.    In an audience of approx 40 people, in the Bay Area, this is what   worked in the film- Some very fine acting, good dialogues and fine   production values. Now the big drawback and bore. It was very, very  ... 

Film is about communicating with the masses. Or so it was meant to be. Every so often comes a film, which reminds us that humans are inherently alike. A film which appeals due to it’s very simplicity, yet if the layers are removed it reveals a lot of depth. A film, which is your “common every person’s film.” A film, which is light, humorous, yet not bereft of an inherent understanding... 

What really attracted you to Jhumpa’s story? Well I was really inspired by grief. I had lost my mother in law, who was like a mother to me and that too very unexpectedly in New York, in a malpractise in a Hospital. We buried her in a snow storm in New Jersey and this was a woman who had spent her whole life in East Africa and I had never experienced the finality of death of a person close to me... 

Title: Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Starring: Imran Khan, Genelia D’Souza Language: Hindi Direction: Abbas Tyrewala Imran Khan – another chocolate hero, another Khan, enters Bollywood, this time introduced by none other than the chocolate hero of the late eighties (now quite transformed) Aamir Khan, who produced this film. Imran Khan, the hero also happens to be Aamir’s nephew. The film also marks...