What else can you call someone who is an actor, a singer, a Stand Up performer and if that is not enough, also an entrepreneur. Ash Chandler, defied logic by showing up as a NRI in Mumbai, India, some years ago, the showing up was not where logic got topsy turvy, but how he embraced the city, which instantly made him one of it’s own, is a path no NRI artist before, and few after, have traversed.... 

DO SCRIPTWRITING TECHNIQUES AS TAUGHT BY WESTERN TEACHERS, PRIMARILY WITH HOLLYWOOD AS A FOCUS, WORK IN INDIA? Throwing light on this is writer and director and a former Senior Faculty – Screenwriting Department, Whistling Woods International, Sanjay Talreja. Sanjay has taught filmmaking and scriptwriting in Canada, the US, and lately, in India. Sanjay has worked as a writer, editor and is an accomplished... 

Paresh’s film, Harishchandrachi Factory, is the official entry from India, for the Oscar’s to be decided in early 2010. The film is about how India’s first feature film got made against tremendous financial odds. Ironically, Paresh’s story is not very different. He had to mortgage his property, overcome the typical Bollywood mindset and make his film. We managed to catch up with Paresh as... 

He was PfC Omar Ulmer in Inglourious Basterds, and was also seen in Death Proof. This talented actor and musici an (amongst other creative things), looks forward to now taking on Bollywood. From being the son of a doctor in Pennsylvania, to now making a firm foothold in Hollywood, nothing seems impossible for this multi dimensional artist. Here is a conversation with one of the rising South Asian... 

“Director Rajeev Virani represents the new breed of Indian filmmakers. Those that are taking their training from the West, San Francisco- California in this case, to make films about the East, but for audiences globally and certainly for India. Here is more about Rajeev.” What got you into the film line? How has the San Francisco Bay Area contributed to that? After I graduated from Sydenham... 

What are the upcoming films from PNC? With the strike in the industry we have had to re stratergize our release dates. That being said we have Aur Devdas, a horror film by Sangeeth Sivan, Raat Gaye Bat Gaye, a film by Saeed Mirza and a couple more, so a whole slate of films. Is there anything happening on the Television front? Nothing that we would like to discuss right now, except that we are seeing... 

RAHUL SINGH – From being a writing actor to being on the threshold of being written about In Indian Cinema, a Hero is a Hero and a Villian is a Villian, but sometimes solid actors make their debut more driven by the role, as opposed to it’s traditional classifications. One such actor, making his way in Bollywood, is Rahul Singh, who made a solid enough debut in Zubeida…solid enough to be... 

When a man encounters a wall there are two things that happen, either he turns away like most of humanity, or he digs a hole through it and forces his way to the other side. An individual who chose the latter course is Sartaj Singh Pannu, the wall was old school  Bollywood, and the outcome is new age cinema… SOCH LO. Now find out about the man and his movie, that has overcome tremendous odds and...