These days every Hindi Satellite TV channel airs a slew of slimy soapy serials. These so called women oriented serials are the lifeblood of TV channels these days. These serials have attained an on-demand immortality so to speak, since they can live on as long as they want! If only I could, I would love [...]
Just watched Slumdog Millionaire this weekend. I think it was better than I had expected. I am from Mumbai and the movie is based on the side of Mumbai that is ugly. I liked the movie overall, only because they made a good attempt at capturing that life without hyper sensitizing the audience. But apart [...]
I wonder many times these days, as to why they call the movie industry in India as Bollywood. Initially at least they coined this term by using ‘B’ombay and H’ollywood’. Looking at the last few years, I think we should call it ‘P’ollywood. I can explain in a bit. But first, let me get my [...]
These days we have this new tide of television programs that are sweeping the audience off their emotions in a big way.
Gone are the days when mothers used to cry watching those TV serials showing misbehaving children, or mother-in-laws (popularly known as ’saas’) used to shed bucketful of tears everytime a daughter-in-law (popularly known as [...]