Time To Bajao – Bollywood’s 1st Ghanta Awards are here!

If they have the Oscar, we have FilmFarce, Screen, IIFA, GIFA, Stardust, Apsara, Urvashi, Menaka and million others. And if they have the Razzies, here is our Ghanta Awards. What is Ghanta ? The Ghantas celebrates and rewards the worst of Bollywood for 2010. Over the last year Bollywood has nouned, verbalized and adjectived us [...]

“What is True Grit ?” ponders Anupam Dhar

Anupam, who ? Well, here is Jahan Bakshi on Anupam – I can’t really think of any grandiose ways to describe the unassuming bloke that is Anupam Dhar. So I’ll just say that Sunny, as we often call him – is my senior from the rather eclectic Department of Mass Communications at St. Xavier’s College, [...]

When was the last time you attended a film festival and were washing your dishes after every meal?

Well, Sumit Purohit just did that at the ViBGYOR International Film Festival. A pucca pahadi by heart and filmmaker by passion, he is a graduate  from Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU (Baroda). His short film “I Woke Up One Morning And Found Myself Famous” was one of the opening films of the festival. A lesser [...]

“Why you should hate love stories” advises Subrat

“This is how a working class love story should be”, Subrat messaged after watching Blue Valentine. “Wow! Post ?” I replied back. And here it is. If you have seen it, read the post to fall in love with it, all over again. If you haven’t, do watch it. Was also wondering how in the [...]

“127 Hours – why it makes me want to make movies. And why not !” questions Fatema Kagalwala

Until very recently I was quite unaware of a concept called creative diffidence. Or let’s say creative insignificance. I always thought talent was immeasurable. Everyone had their own share and it’s really upto you to do what you will with it. And even if you had been passed up your share then passion, intellect, skill [...]

“Mumbai Diaries pierced through my gut & took a bit of me in every beat” confesses Sunayana Prabhu

Not sure when was the last time it happened – so many extreme reactions to a film. From pretentious, fuck boring to one of the best debuts, even best thing that happened to Indian Cinema in recent years.  They said it all. And the critics’ ratings varied from 2.5 to 4 stars. Click here for [...]

7 Khoon Maaf’s O Mama (video) – Vishal Learns To Rock!

And as expected, the song has been picturised on John Abraham. Can someone please tell us which lucky man has got the  best song  of the film -  Tere Liye. Header – From Raja Sen’s tweet

If we don’t tell our stories, who will ? Fox Searchlight might!

And this one comes straight from the Sundance Film Festival where Fox Searchlight has bought the remake rights to The Bengali Detective. For those of you who are not aware of The Bengali Detective, its a documentary and here is the official synopsis – In response to police corruption, the private detective business has become [...]

VOTD : Russian Red’s Loving Strangers

We know its the time to play the music of 7 Khoon Maaf in loop, but if you need a break, try it. Room In Rome – We haven’t seen the film but a friend posted this musical promo of the film. Gorgeous vocals, beautiful visuals, lots of nudity and lesbianism. NSFW and we are [...]

Aamir Khan is on the jury of Berlin Film Festival & we have a small request

And that’s what you call a perfect timing! Dhobi Ghat, pitched as a first art house film from Aamir Khan Productions, released on Friday, and now the announcement that Aamir Khan will be one the jury of Berlin International Film festival 2011. It’s among the top five International film festivals worldwide and to be on [...]