Fashion designers of South Asian origin were well represented at the Golden Globes and parties surrounding the Jan. 13 awards show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Actress Freida Pinto says growing up in Mumbai she feared the threat of being raped. Speaking to CNN’s Erin Brunett, Pinto talked about reading news reports on rape incidents, but did not recollect reading about any follow up on them and confessed of always being in fear. “This might just happen to me,” Frieda said on The Outlook, which aired Jan. 14. In another incident, eerily similar to the Dec.
A feature-length documentary produced by a Mumbai-based company has been selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the ongoing Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. “Fire in the Blood” is also nominated for the coveted Grand Jury Prize.
Indo-British actor Ricky Sekhon, who played Osama bin Laden in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty,” says he was known as "Osama bin Loungin” on the set because he got so comfortable lying in a body bag. Even though Sekhon’s character is central to the film, the actor hardly has any screen presence and not a single dialogue in the film. The film focuses on the 10-year manhunt for bin Laden.
Bollywood film "Kai Po Che", based on a novel by Chetan Bhagat, is the only Indian film among 31 features to be screened in the Panorama segment at next month's Berlin Film Festival. The film, based on Bhagat's "The 3 Mistakes of My Life", is about three friends and their dream of setting up a cricket academy in India.
A couple of weeks ago, I watched a Marathi film called “Balak Palak” (Children and Parents). A new crop of film-makers is portraying the burgeoning Indian middle class with its own set of problems and “Balak Palak” is no different. Director Ravi Jadhav chronicles the lives of four school students and their first encounter with adult literature and how it alters their friendship.
Iran hostage drama "Argo" scored a sweet double victory at the Golden Globe awards on Sunday, winning best movie drama - the night's top prize - and best director for Ben Affleck on a night that left front-runner "Lincoln" with just one trophy. Musical "Les Miserables" won the contest for best comedy or musical, as well as acting awards for stars Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway.
