Movie reviews, Music reviews, the state of my blood pressure after watching Indian TV serials and whatever I watch on the idiot box.
Mid December last year (gosh, that sounds like a long time ago) I took my kids to the cinemas to watch a much-awaited Bollywood movie P.K. that starred superstar Aamir Khan. A few months before the released first-look posters caused quite a stir with Amir Khan posing stark naked with just a transistor radio to give him decency. Iโm yet to understand why that caused … Continue reading Banning Movies Because of Religious Sentiment
It’s been long! Welcome back ‘Deep-ends’. Your movie reviews were missed! ~ Kamal *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Despite being a Punjabi, a film with a name like โHumptyโ in it, isย not very encouraging! But sources I respect had given it the thumbs up, so a bunch of us huddled up with popcorn in a half empty theatre on Monday night. It started with the familiar audio of Kuch … Continue reading Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania – Deep-ends review
Who doesnโt know Vishal Dadlani? Vishal is part of a duo with Shekhar Ravjiani and is responsible for many successful soundtracks in Hindi, Telugu and Marathi films. Pentagram is a four-piece Indian rock/electronica band started in 1994 in Mumbai, India. Regarded as one of the pioneers of original Indian independent music, the band has received major recognition. Pentagram is fronted by Vishal, with Randolph Correia on guitars, … Continue reading Catching up with Vishal Dadlani – Musician Extraordinaire
Mika Singh! Our favourite Badmaash of Bollywood! Welcome to East Africa yet againโฆ and most importantly to Nairobi. Thank you ji, thank you so much. And first of all Satsriakal, Namaste and Salaam Aleikum Nairobi, Iโm here just for five hours and I just had a great concert in Uganda, all thanks to the Uganda fans and Ranee Jamal of Ranee Productions, and maybe Iโll … Continue reading Exclusive interview with singer Mika Singh; Badmaash of Bollywood
Deep-ends is here again! Here’s a review of Madras Cafe ******************************************************************** Madras Cafe is an intense, thought-provoking, docu-drama high-lighting events preceding the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi 22 years ago. This is an important and informative film that educated me about the long and bitter guerilla war in Sri Lanka and India’s involvement in it. This is one of those film’s that you leave and rush … Continue reading Madras Cafe review
Deep-ends is back! ~Kamal ************************** Bhaag Milka Bhaag is brilliant! This is a true story about Milkha Singh, a gifted athlete who held the 400-meter world record and represented India at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. In fact, he lost that particular race at the Olympics because of his own personal demons. As a child he witnessed his parentsโ slaughter during the partition of India … Continue reading Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Bhangra music is to see an unexpected and surprising collaboration in 2013 with the return of an artist who has given Punjabi music fans some of the biggest anthems of all time, Mr โDe De Gheraโ himself …. Balvir Boparai teams up with Dipps Bhamrah! Hailing from Boparai Kalan in Ludihana, Balvir Boparai sent Punjabi music lovers world wide into a frenzy when his ground breaking album โHostelโ was … Continue reading Balvir Boparai & Dipps Bhamrah – Brand New Album 2013
A hundred years ago, on 3rd May 1913, Dadasaheb Phalke, who is considered to be the father of Indian Cinema, released his epochal feature film Satyawadi Raja Harishchandra with no idea that… Read more Continue reading Celebrating a century of Bollywoodโฆ
This week’s Bollywood stories on Kamal’s Korner Continue reading Just Bollywood – this week’s stories
Catch up with some of the happenings in Bollywood this week… Continue reading Just Bollywood – This week’s stories
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