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,... 

Rann goes into a different and interesting subject matter territory…that of the Media, both it’s explosive influence on the Indian way of life, it’s pressures and also the it’s evolution from the medium of information and preservation of a democracy, to becoming a full fledged business operation. By it’s very subject matter, by the wonderful performances by Rajat Kapoor, Suchitra Krishnamurty... 

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... 

I am sure each one of us has been through situations which we want to forget and just move on with life. Here is a movie which does exactly that; it reminds you that nobody is perfect and that we are all mortals and can and will make mistakes; we all have skeletons, be it big or small in nature, buried in our closet. Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi is a story about people and relationships. The movie begins... 

When the audiences (and a whole lot of them across the globe), left the screening of 3 Idiots, the character of Chatur Ramalingam, aka “Silencer,” was what stayed on for the longest time in memory. He had not been seen before on the Bollywood screen, but had become the scene stealer. His was no ordinary protagonist by Bollywood standards, his Hindi speech was the comic highlight of the film and... 

2009, an otherwise dismal year for Bollywood, ends on a positive note with 3 Idiots. The film is an entertaining watch and also has an underlying message of following one’s dreams and on a side note, that innovation are something the Indian education system, rarely promotes, if anything, it negates the imaginative mind. The film is about campus life, albeit, not in the traditional Bollywood way,... 

When the audience walked out of Madhur’s FASHION, last year, two performances were remembered most, those of Ashwin and Kitu. No mean task when you take a film that was full of topnotch acting and actors. And if that was not enough, Ashwin recently played the NRI Sikh to perfection in N. Chandra’s Yeh Mera India, a character that has never been portrayed accurately in the past, in Hindi films,...