Senior Rediff.com Contributor Aseem Chhabra is director of the New York Indian Film Festival, an entertainment writer and author of Irrfan Khan: The Man, The Dreamer, The Star. You can e-mail the author at aseem.chhabra@gmail.com
A few years ago Mehreen Jabbar took a trip back home to Pakistan -- a visit required for her green card application process. Jabbar had worked for nearly 13 years producing and directing soap operas for Pakistani television, often while living in New York. During the visit, her father handed her an outline of a film script based on a true incident.
As an Indian American actor in Hollywood, Kal Penn has played very diverse roles from coping with the angst of being a brown-skinned kid who has to deal with the burden of his name and heritage in Mira Nair's The Namesake, to a slacker sitting on a toilet with a case of bad stomach in his latest Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.
Looking at the Indian platter at the 58th Berlinale International Film Festival.
A film that purports to be a love story is in deep trouble if its lead characters do not connect and are not believable. And that is biggest flaw of Saawariya.
It took the director of Om Shanti Om a long time to reach where she is today. Her talent will continue to explode and surprise us.
Writer Asra Nomani, a friend of Daniel Pearl's, tells Aseem Chhabra why she doesn't believe in A Mighty Heart.
The Last Legion, however, is disappointing.
A press reporter recounts being denied an interview of a lifetime with the actress of A Mighty Heart.
Gurinder Chadha joins a collective of global directors in creating Paris Je T'Aime, an ode to the city of love.
Aseem Chhabra feels every Indian-American should support The Namesake.
Van Wilder star Kal Penn talks about finding his feet in Bollywood.
Aseem Chhabras Diwalis were once about lots of mithai and good food... and deprivation.
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