Ismail Merchant the longstanding producer/director duo of classy independant films, died today in London. Indian born Merchant along with James Ivory, an American, made some 40 films together and won six Oscars spanning 4 decades. Infact, they are featured in The Guiness Book of records for longest standing partnership in films. Their movies were […]

Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s films are known for its music. 1942 A love Story (RD Burman), Kareeb (Anu Malik?), Mission Kashmir (Shakhar Ehsaan Roy) had extraordinary music. His latest film based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya’s classic bengali novel Parineeta, simply rocks! Listen to it at Raaga.com.
Sonu Nigam croons, lulls, mesmerizes and Shreya Ghosal transports you 2 […]

Sony today released another HD camcoder HDR-HC1 - the smallest ever. So now Sony has 3 HD camcoders - new HC1($1700), Fx1 ($3500), Z1u ($5000). It probably will have a 1/3″ CCD (/CMOS) given its price range. It does a 1080, interlaced of course, and a Cineframe 24p simulation.
With its pictbridge, 1-megapixel stills, […]

Maybe creators get better with time and experience. I always like to see older work of my favorite creators. In books, I love certain authors Sidney Sheldon, Chase, Alistair MacLean, Ludlum, Crichton and latest to join the list is Dan Brown with his spectacular page turner Da Vince Code […]

One of the evergreen Indian films of all time - Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The one with pure heart will conquer the girl) released in 1995 completed its 500th week in Bombay’s Maratha Mandhir Cinema Hall. Apparently it is still running full houses on weekends and public holidays!
This is the film that started the trend […]

Steven Soderberg - the stylish director known for Oceans 11/12 and Traffic - is trying a new form of distribution. If you are thinking ‘Internet ? why even I distribute my home videos in Internet’ - no, not only Internet. His next film ‘Bubble’ is going to be simultaneously released in theaters, DVD, pay-per-view TV […]

I came across an indie movie ‘Let’s Talk’ from India at my local Mercer Island Library. The premises sounded interesting, so I picked it up last week and watched it yesterday. It is a small budget movie, shot with 3 actors and 2 rooms. I have a fascination with movies shot with limited resources, […]

Some of the incredibly useful stuff I can’t live without in a (new) computer. I always carry the installation files with me (thanks to Yahoo Briefcase)
Whenever I move to a new computer or buy a new laptop (not that I buy a new lappie every year) I immediately customize my comp by loading these tiny […]