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A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
From artists we finally we got more of, to weddings we couldn’t get enough of, 2018 proved to be a great year for Hindi cinema. Many unwritten industry rules that[…]
The year 2018 was a great one for Hindi cinema. From big budget behemoths to funny family films, strong content succeeded at the box office. This Thanksgiving we’re not only[…]
A few years ago, Maanayata Dutt, Hindi film actor Sanjay Dutt’s wife, asked popular filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani to consider making a movie about the controversial star. Dutt’s life truly has[…]
Hindi film Pad Man is based on the true story of Arunachalam Muruganantham, an Indian man credited with assembling a low cost sanitary pad manufacturing machine. It’s also Akshay Kumar’s fourth[…]
Marriage is the beautiful union of two hearts. But Hindi cinema prefers weddings to marriages, where melodrama unites with melody. Unique to Hindi films is the grief-filled song sung at[…]
There once was a little girl in Canada named Karenjit Kaur Vohra. Her dad worked as an engineer at a nearby factory and her days were spent playing with her[…]
The term ‘Bollywood’ is cringe-worthy on many levels. Aside from making Hindi cinema, an industry with a long, rich history, appear nothing more than a cheap song-and-dance routine prancing in[…]
Since Karan Johar’s debut as a director almost twenty years ago, Dharma Productions has become synonymous with bringing glamour and polish to the world of Hindi cinema. Johar’s melodramatic, lavish[…]
Award-winning filmmaker Shrihari Sathe has produced 22 independent films set around the world from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Buffalo, New York. Sathe is someone who believes a good story goes beyond borders[…]
Starting Friday, August 5, theaters nationwide will showcase Bazodee (Trinidadian slang for disoriented or confused), described as a “Bollywood-style Caribbean musical.” The filmmakers are betting audiences who enjoy Bollywood cinema[…]
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