Dostana is a Karan Johar production. No, don’t take my word for it, nor Karan’s, the film is feel good cinema. Again nothing wrong with it, this is mass communications, and here is a feel good mass communicating product…except it takes on the subject of being “gay,” but in a light and feel good manner. It appears as though “gayism” is suddenly exploding in Bollywood.... 

The first thing that strikes the “Bollywood centric” viewer, is that not since Monsoon Wedding, do we have a film, which is also an good and enjoyable Bollywood watch, for the people with that sensibility, along with being an interesting attempt by the West, to attempt a crossover into pure play Indian territory. This it does achieve. Despite having some glaring holes in the script, namely In... 

Firstly take out from your system that Madhur makes “reality movies.” PAGE 3 people in the real life party and are very normal and don’t resort to child porn, CORPORATE types who go to Nariman Point to work, don’t spend their evening sleeping around, else India would not be an economic powerhouse..ditto for FASHION, it is based on true events, but after that- highly sensationalized and “made... 

Meeting All The Checklist Items An Ashok Amritraj movie, of late, has some characteristics. It is safe, does not take too many chances on the script, which in turn follows a pretty straightforward traditional three act structure, has a feel good and happy ending and moves along at a crisp enough pace to prevent boredom or too much of seriousness to set in. In effect traditional family fare and nothing... 

A little about your journey to a filmmaker, since you don’t come from a film family? Well…. lets see where to start. Born and schooling in Bhutan where my mother exposed me to Hindi films. There was one cinema hall in the capital city Thimphu and every weeKend we watched movies there. And at an early age I started dreaming about being a part of this magical art form. From there it has... 

A little about Loins of Punjab? It’s a laugh-out-load, sing-out-proud romantic musical comedy, about a singing contest set in a small town in New Jersey. The movie is in English and has been a huge hit in India, and won many awards at international film festivals, and been critically acclaimed by press in India and the U.S. SPHERE: RELATED CONTENT Read More →

Beverly Hills, CA — Wednesday, October 1, is the deadline to submit entries in the Live Action Short Film, Animated Short Film and Foreign Language Film categories to be considered for the 81st Academy Awards®. Complete entries must arrive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by 5 p.m. PT that day. In the short film categories, filmmakers must submit an entry form, one film print... 

You gave that brilliant performance, underplayed, yet powerful, in Harish Saluja’s JOURNEY, with Saeed Jaffrey and Roshan Seth, what’s been going on the in creative front since? I have been acting in a number of UK TV series and films like “LD50″ an eco-thriller. also I spent a year with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the WEST END and on tour with Salman Rushdie`s...