After five years of hard work, and many months of film festival touring, Mira Nair is finally getting ready for the theatrical release of The Reluctant Fundamentalist in India.
Karishma Tanna, Mouni Roy, Gauhar Khan...the starry guest list goes on.
Join Sukanya Verma, Sonil Dedhia and Aseem Chhabra as they discuss the film live.
Aseem Chhabra glances at the week gone by in New York
'I believe FFI has made a mistake,' notes Aseem Chhabra.
Directed by Alankriti Shrivastava, the film stars a bevy of talented actresses.
'I come from a country of colours. India is one of the most colourful countries in the world and that was true long before the Incredible India campaigns designed to entice Western tourists to India,' says Aseem Chhabra.
Aseem Chhabra feels Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola starts off on a promising note but falters towards the end.
'There is a part of me that says it is a great time to tell stories from my own land.' 'But then opportunities are coming my way from all over the world.' 'So one foot is here and one foot is in the West.'
Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films, most of them shown at international film festivals held virtually (Berlinale and Rotterdam), hybrid (Toronto) or physical (Cannes and Venice).
Riz Ahmed tells Aseem Chhabra that most people can relate to the film, as it is the story of an outsider trying to find a home in a new society.
Films that amazed Aseem Chhabra at the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt.
Mikey McCleary is the man behind the O Lal Meri song in David and Khoya Khoya Chand in Shaitan. His initial film work is bringing him additional projects including some A-list projects.
Sexual motifs take centrestage at the ongoing 63rd Berlin Film Festival as several films replete with nudity, orgies, pornstars and influential men premiere at the film festival, Aseem Chhabra reports.
Director Steven Hoover tells Aseem Chhabra about his award-winning film, Blood Brother, a documentary on Rocky Braat and his extraordinary relationship with HIV-positive children in a Tamil Nadu orphanage.
On Friday afternoon, as he sat in a freezing cold New Jersey theater watching Kamal Haasan's latest film Vishwaroopam, a two and a half hour long international terrorism thriller and an expensive production for Indian standards, Aseem Chhabra kept trying to figure out one thing. Why did the film offend some Muslim organisations and why has it been banned in Tamil Nadu?
After relaxing in the secret room along with Siddharth Shukla and witnessing all the fights in the house, Paras Chhabra returned to the main house and spilled all the beans about his co-contestants.
In today's episode, Salman will evict two male celebs.
'Ishaan Khattar, with the please-fall-in-love-with-me looks in his eyes, carries the first episode,' observes Aseem Chhabra.
Siddhartha Dey feels Siddharth is always ready to fight with the girls and that's no way a man should behave.
With the Bigg Boss 13 finale just two weeks away, the competition is getting fierce.
'I had naively believed that for the rape-related crisis to be resolved, the young protestors would have walked along with the police, with the hope of eventually working out issues with the elected officials and the law enforcement personnel. The protest I participated in the morning was hijacked later in the afternoon by self-serving politicians and people who perhaps had other agendas to pursue,' Aseem Chhabra notes in this first person account of what happened.
Indian-British filmmaker Amit Gupta speaks to Aseem Chhabra about combing his love for food and cinema
Aseem Chhabra is sure that Argo will win the Best Picture at Oscars but he still doesn't like the film. Here's why.
Kai Po Che works because of its earnest and very talented cast.
Asim Riaz, who has been grabbing limelight lately because of his fights with Siddharth Shukla, seems to have found someone special inside the Bigg Boss house.
Aseem Chhabra feels Talaash is an intelligent film but falters towards the end.
Check out the star arrivals.
For Aseem Chhabra Yash Chopra's last film, Jab Tak Hai Jaan, signals the end of an era in Bollywood.
After Siddharth Shukla and Asim Riaz's showdown in the last episode, equations have changed drastically inside the Bigg Boss house, as Mahira Sharma and Paras Chhabra are now supporting Sid.
Take a look at celebs at Aamir Khan's Diwali party.
'The content on television is directly proportional to what the audience likes.'
Here was this filmmaker, who has won so many awards, including a couple of Oscars, and there was not an ounce of arrogance in him, says Aseem Chhabra.
It is all too easy to blame Bollywood, notes Aseem Chhabra, just as many politicians are now saying that young women should not step out late at night or wear Western clothes, suggesting that leads some men to become rapists.
