Reena Shah of My Pet Dragon is one of the background dancers in this Daily Show clip, where Dr. Aasif Mandvi diagnoses a skinny white guy with an incurable disease: he’s a liberal.
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A powerful rant by Delhi adman Suhel Seth, whom Taj staff texted not to return after the shooting started. He says (paraphrased), ‘We don’t have men, we have wimps running this country. You can’t have 20 people hold 1.1 billion for ransom.’ At 1:20 (thanks, AK):
Two railway cops sharing a single-shot rifle fired at the terrorists in Victoria Terminus. The terrorists were reportedly chased out of the station by cops wielding nothing more than lathis:
Terrorist Kasab was beaten by a mob before the police got him. Let’s roll indeed (at 2:46). The clip shows police finding a survivor in the […]
My buddy Anuvab Pal’s movie The President is Coming premiered at Fame Adlabs in Andheri the night of last week’s attack.
The same weekend saw two other indie premieres: the pitch-perfect, pakka Dilliwale Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, the spiritual successor to Khosla Ka Ghosla, with indie film hero Abhay Deol. And Sorry Bhai!, a comeback vehicle […]
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion
One of the coolest visual effects in the clinically romantic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was the beach house at the end of the movie being disassembled in real time, rafters vanishing into the ether. Charlie Kaufman’s feverish visions have often demanded unobtrusive CGI, and this shot, […]
Both Hollywood and Bollywood just released 3D animated movies starring pooches. Going by the status of most dogs in India, I’d have guessed the star of Roadside Romeo would be a mangy stray rather than a lost pet. But both Romeo and Bolt are privileged house dogs who, by happenstance, lose their cushy, pampered […]
The President is Coming opens in India on Nov. 28th, and it’s one of the rare cases where a play benefits from the transition to film. As funny as the play was, there were some lulls in its second half. The film version is sharper and tighter. My buddy Anuvab Pal, the playwright and screenwriter, […]
Singing contests are so popular in India that someone made an entire movie around the idea (Loins of Punjab). With the popularity of outsourcing and English-medium education in India, I always figured we’d be first in line if American bands ever started outsourcing their singing.
But hark! What strange beasts slouch toward Madison Square Garden? Milord, […]
Benaam (’74) opens with a psychedelic spinning void…
… and segues into ’60s-tastic fashion:
Moushumi Chatterjee’s upturned corners have always been a favorite. A college friend wore it with black clothes and a velvet choker, rockin’ the infamous ’60s Madras goth look.
This clip from Parwana (1971) shows off Marine Drive before development, all art deco apartment blocks, and a skinny, baby-faced Amitabh Bachchan:
I should have known the moment Nandita Das crossed a temple courtyard to tie a prayer flag around a tree: this movie would turn out like Bore.
Ramchand Pakistani is not a movie in the sense that most of us understand the term, images and ideas which expose us to new experiences. It is, instead, a […]
As part of a promo for her new album, singer Dido released a desi music vid keyed to ‘Let’s Do The Things We Normally Do.’ It’s a day in the life of a female Bombay cabbie, played by Shahana Goswami from Rock On (thanks, Dari):
An Irani cafe, a stockbroker, a koliwada, a woman shelling peas […]
The Chandrayaan impactor has crashed into the surface of the moon like a speeding D-Company hitman:
The [Moon Impact Probe] crashed at… the Shackleton crater in the south polar region of the Moon… [with] three instruments… a video camera, a radar altimeter and a mass spectrometer. “After it is separated, the MIP starts spinning like a […]