An interview with auteur and film director Bauddhayan Mukherji Bauddhayan ‘Buddy’ Mukherji is first and foremost a Director (independent film) who also has a full time job doing the same thing – but for TV ads – he gets given the script and makes the commercial. He has made more than 350 ads from agencies…
Star Wars Firms fined £1.6m ( $2m) after Harrison Ford (74), broke his leg on the set of the latest Star Wars movie. The actor was injured in June 2014 at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire as he reprised his role as Han Solo. He was struck by a metal door on the set of the…
Oh – what a surprise! The popular Bridget Jones is back and this time there’s a new deal – a bun in the oven with a bit of a quandary as to who is the definitive doting dad! Director Sharon Maguire with a cast including Colin Firth and dishy Patrick Dempsey, not to forget Emma Thompson…
Directed by Ciro Guerra this film won the Alfred P Sloan prize and has been on release in UK since June this year. It examines the ravages of colonialism through two explorers who have in fact been adrift with malaise and fever and yet are still clinging to their material goods and finding it hard…
Most of us who have seen the decidedly irreverent but undeniably hilarious Absolutely Fabulous on our televisions over the years will know at least partly what to expect from this film. Some of the characters are distinctly older in this feminist feist such as June Whitfield arriving on the scene in a stairlift but rest…
Pahlaj Nihalani, from India’s censor board complained the film depicted Punjab in a bad light so the censor board has ordered that all references to the state and politics including words such as election, party, parliament and MP be deleted. The film’s producer appealed to the High Court of Bombay, which asked the…
Sanjay Patel’s Super Team the short from Pixar which tells a personal story and touches on generation gap and their experiences as well as the immigrant experiences. His father morning prayers which interfered his computer games, as his parents whole world revolved around their gods, “The Hindu deities “. Patel 41 who joined Pixar in…
The cast of this film is its trump card but having declared that, the story is also haunting, disturbing and riveting. Our introduction to the characters is gradual and the tale is initially delivered in an other worldy dream-like way where ostentation and violence pervade with no easy viewing for the audience. As the story unfolds with Dima…
The writer of this story – Rudyard Kipling was accused of racist behaviour at the time of his writing as he was partly brought up both in Africa and India – par for the course one might say for his era, as he wrote mesmerising, memorable and lovable tales and poems involving India and Africa…
Kapoor and Sons is an all-round treat for just about everyone. It’s a family saga touched with romance which is totally credible and in many ways quite a Westernised method shows through in the handling and portrayal of the characters and scenes, including the non-traditional “costumes” and love themes. When the family grandfather takes a…