Sanju Film Review – An Immensely Engaging Technicolor Dream

Recently, when Ranbir Kapoor was doing the promotional rounds for Sanju, he told a reporter, “Sanjay Dutt’s life can be made into a Netflix show and it can run for 10 seasons.” He’s right. Sanjay Dutt’s almost Biblical life is mired… Continue Reading

Five Reasons Why North Indians Will Fall Madly In Love With Dulquer Salmaan

  Dulquer Salmaan, the talented, scorching hot son of the South Indian cinema icon, Mammooty, has already followed his father’s footsteps and conquered the South with award-winning films like Ustad Hotel, Bangalore Days and Charlie. The actor has now set his… Continue Reading

What Imran Khan Could Learn From His Italian Look-a-like, Politician Luigi Di Maio

Imran Khan has been out of work for a very long time. His last starring role was in the godwful 2015  Katti Batti which could best be described as 500 Days of Summer meets a banal Ekta Kapoor daytime soap while… Continue Reading

Lust Stories Review – Bollywood’s Auteurs Don’t Want To Talk About Sex But Rather, What It Can Do

Released in 2013, Bombay Talkies saw the joining of forces of four of Bollywood’s biggest filmmaking talents (Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar, Dibanker Banerjee and Anurag Kashyap) to create an anthology film that celebrated Bombay and the 100 year anniversary of its… Continue Reading

Why Pad Man, Padmavaat and Veere Di Wedding Were Banned In Kuwait

Even though Bollywood is relatively chaste and wholesome compared to other film industries, because Kuwait is a conservative Muslim country and, as a result, prefers its theatrical releases asexual and apolitical, some Bollywood films do get banned. Here are the… Continue Reading

Meet Grown-ish’s Vivek Shah – American TV’s First Sexy Indian Man!

I recall watching a couple of old Buzzfeed videos where I saw Indian nationals criticizing what they perceived to be a complete lack of hot Indian men on American television. They were right for the most part, as Indian men… Continue Reading

Talking To Bombay’s Hot New Celebrity Chef, Pablo Naranjo Agular, On Cooking for Bollywood Stars and Adapting To Life In India

“It used to piss me off so much when I was living in France, people coming up to me and yelling “Colombian! Cocaina!!” Like most Colombians I know, Chef Pablo Naranjo Agular, the head chef of Le15 Café in Colaba,… Continue Reading

Let’s Call 2017 What It Really Was – The Kick In The Crotch Bollywood Needed

The Khan films tanked and two thirds of the big-budget, “commercially viable” films that were churned out did too and justifiably so! The films were poorly executed, sorry excuses of tadka popcorn fare that deserved the hand they were dealt.… Continue Reading

The Reasons Why Indian Journalists Did Not Talk About Shashi Kapoor’s British Films

It was a bleak December day the day Shashi Kapoor left us. Every Indian publication wrote a loving tribute to the Bollywood icon detailing his many accomplishments from his symbiosis with Amitabh Bachchan and the great films like Sharmelee that came out of… Continue Reading