Aseem Chhabra remembers writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who together with filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, brought many a quiet, gentle tale to life.
Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's concert -- held over the weekend in New York -- was quite disappointing.
Sonu Sood had a special screening for his new film Kung Fu Yoga for his friends in the film fraternity in Mumbai.
Day 18 inside the Bigg Boss house was full of drama and fights, courtesy Siddharth Shukla, who seems determined to become the villain of the season.
The fascinating story of this man was one of the most searched topics on Google after the trailer was launched with Irrfan's Tomar, his gaze fixed at a journalist interviewing him, mouthing that iconic dialogue "beehad mein baaghi hote hain, dacait milte hain Parliament mein".
While ex-lovers Vishal Aditya Singh and Madhurima Tuli weren't seeing eye-to-eye, they have finally broken the ice and looks like they may patch-up by the end of their Bigg Boss journey.
Aseem Chhabra savours Woody Allen's latest film, Raghu Dixit's show in New York and MoMA's Rain Room.
With the Bigg Boss finale just two weeks away, the contestants are beginning to feet the heat.
Rediff star reviewers tells us who they are rooting for.
Aseem Chhabra, a Bollywood lover who has lived in New York for over 30 years, narrates how he overcame his summer woes to watch Nikhil Advani's gangster flick D-Day in a theatre across the Hudson river in New Jersey.
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.
'Salman asked me if I would be open to playing a negative character.' 'I told him I would do even a single scene for him.'
The fact that Home Minister Amit Shah recently met Raje was a marker that Delhi will be compelled to take her more seriously than it would care to. Like B S Yediyurappa, she's a regional chieftain who can't be discarded at will, reports Radhika Ramaseshan.
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
Bigg Boss 13: Guess how Asim made Himanshi's birthday special!
Karishma Tanna, Mouni Roy, Gauhar Khan...the starry guest list goes on.
'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.
Directed by Alankriti Shrivastava, the film stars a bevy of talented actresses.
Aseem Chhabra feels Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola starts off on a promising note but falters towards the end.
The hits and flops of the week.
'We thought we'd be away from Mumbai for two or three years.' 'If only life were that simple!'
It is also for the first time ever that so many Indian-Americans have been roped into a presidential administration ever before the inauguration. Biden, a Democrat, is still quite far away from filling all the positions in his administration.
Declining vegetable prices brought down the retail inflation to a 15-month low of 4.59 per cent in December and within the comfort zone of the Reserve Bank, government data showed on Tuesday. It is for the first time during the current fiscal that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation print is below 6 per cent or in the RBI's target range of 2 to 6 per cent. The central bank factors in the CPI-based inflation while arriving at its monetary policy. The inflation in December 2020 came down from 6.93 per cent in November, mainly on account of 10.41 per cent decline in vegetable prices over the year-ago period.
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.
Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.
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.
'I believe FFI has made a mistake,' notes Aseem Chhabra.
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?
'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
In today's episode, Salman will evict two male celebs.
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.
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.
