Scribbles and Ramblings

I cannot do a Best Indian films of 2013 list because not many Indian films got released in my city. The majority of titles that made it to...

Agneepath (2012, India, Karan Malhotra) Karan Malhotra’s Agneepath conveys the essence of 1980's Bollywood revenge tales in a techn...

In the latest Cannes roundup , David Hudson has put up a trailer for Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told co-directed by Rakeysh Om...

Band Baaja Baaraat (2010, India, Maneesh Sharma) Maneesh Sharma makes an impressive debut with Band Baaja Baaraat , a film that does th...

While Indian crime films has been around for a few decades, they remain relatively unknown in North America outside of the Indian communit...

Billu Barber (2009, Priyadarshan) So much for the controversy regarding the title. Even though the title has the word "barber" ...

Top 10 films 1) Oye Lucky Lucky Oye (Dibakar Banerjee) Dibakar Banerjee's second feature is a rare thing -- an intelligent enter...

informer 1. a person who informs against another, esp. for money or other reward. 2. a person who informs or communicates information or...

Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are two Indian states where politics is brewed with more passion than one could find in most major Indian cities. I...

The democratic handshake The media keeps reminding us that India is the world's largest democracy but that does not mean it is a succe...

Every summer it seems that North American film critics have to respond to why they did not like a certain Hollywood blockbuster film. Two y...