News has it that writer-director Anurag Kashyap (Black Friday, Dev D, Gulaal, Satya) and actress Kalki Koechlin (Dev D) have finally decided to walk down the altar on April 30th in Ooty, Kalki’s hometown. This will be a very quiet, south-Indian wedding which will begin at 11 am and end with a reception in the …
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Sex bomb Antara Mali hooks up with GQ editor
Sex bomb Antara Mali and former muse of Ram Gopal Varma has secretly married Che Kurrien, the 29-year-old editor of GQ India magazine. She happens to be veteran fashion photographer Jagdish Mali’s daughter whose movie career didn’t really go anywhere, except her link ups with Ram Gopal Varma and Vivek Oberoi among others. The only …
Bollywood beckons: Work with Ram Gopal Varma
Okay, his retake on Sholay didn’t work, but his horror film Phoonk did set the cash registers ringing long after the show was over. Which is good. What’s more, director Ram Gopal Varma also ran a contest alongside. Whoever manages to watch the film alone in a theatre could win Rs 10 lakh. Ofcourse, the …
National anthem. Who has the right over it?
“Nobody has the right to tinker with anthem”. That’s what the Supreme Court of India said Monday in a sad, dangerous comment that should prompt every single artist of this country to protest vigorously. Let’s recall the facts. In his movie “Jana Gana Mana Rann”, director Ram Gopal Varma borrowed lines from the Indian national …
The Amazing Diary of Indian Mole Aged 11
If you’ve read Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole series of books, you will know where I am coming from. Her works are a series of diary jottings maintained by a boy who is aged 13 3/4th years… her later books talk about his notings in his adult years and so on. Here is my interpretation of …
KM Chaitanya: Director of an underworld film speaks out
(When I saw his name in the many film ads, I realised he was my senior in college. Without further ado, I decided to meet him for a film magazine where I am on the advisory board… here is what I wrote on this young debutante director in Sandalwood. My review of his film will …
Strange ways of Bollywood!
If you’ve read Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole series of books, you will know where I am coming from. Her works are a series of diary jottings maintained by a boy who is aged 13 3/4th years… her later books talk about his notings in his adult years and so on. Here is my interpretation of …
