In a stunning victory, Indian-American lawmaker Zohran Kwame Mamdani defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary race for New York City mayor
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.
The fate of The Reluctant Fundamentalist at the Toronto International Film Festival will determine its future.
Mira's films are alive, rocking and so true to the reality I know. They are gifts that I keep revisiting, and I cannot wait for what more she will share with us, notes Aseem Chhabra.
Aviation pioneer's biopic is Indian-origin director's first big Hollywood film.
Shriya's berry look... Esha looks like the sun... Pranita shares a throwback picture...
Mira Nair talks about her style, Harry Potter, and Bollywood going global.
Sickness on screen is a sure shot way of seeking audience sympathy and turning on the waterworks.
Bombay/NY: An Evening with Mira Nair and Suketu Mehta will include a conversation moderated by the Museum's Chief Curator David Schwartz, a screening of Nair's short film Migration, and a reading by Mehta from his book, Maximum City.
Virginia Madsen has signed on to join Hilary Swank and Richard Gere in Mira Nair's Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia. Madsen will play Dorothy Binney, publisher-promoter George Putnam's first wife in the film for Avalon Pictures and Fox Searchlight.
On Wednesday, Nair and Verghese met at Asia Society in New York in a conversation discussing life and the arts.
The Times expects the film to bag a number of acting nominations.
Mira Nair is set to direct Richard Gere and Hilary Swank in Avalon Pictures' Amelia Earhart biopic. The film revolves around the rocky relationship between the famed aviator and her husband, publisher George Putnam.
A look at the star arrivals!
'He surprised us by telling us he wanted to make a career in acting.' 'We were scared since we knew nothing of this profession but then, he landed a role in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding.' 'After seeing him holding his own on screen, we decided to let the boy pursue his passion.'
Abhay Deol was spotted with director Mira Nair at the star-studded India Abroad Person of the Year award ceremony in New York on March 20.
The filmmakers help to prmote AIDS awareness.
Over 300 eminent personalities from the creative and scholarly community of India, including actor Naseeruddin Shah, filmmaker Mira Nair, vocalist TM Krishna, author Amitav Ghosh and historian Romila Thapar have expressed solidarity with the students and others protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens. Writers Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, actors Ratna Patak Shah, Jaaved Jafferi, Nandita Das, Lillete Dubey, sociologist Ashis Nandy, activists Sohail Hashmi and Shabnam Hashmi were also among the signatories.
'These characters have huge spirits and they are fighting something that is much bigger than them.' 'The attempt was to portray how they navigate their lives, to retain that spirit and not let it die.'
'The entire shoot paused after that.' 'There was a heaviness on set -- a shared recognition of the horror we were portraying.'
'They can't take even the smallest step.' 'The mental abuse is so insidious that sometimes they don't even realise it's happening.'
Professors Padma Desai and Jagdish Bhagwati were conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr Renu Khator, President and Chancellor of the University of Houston, was given the Publisher's Special Award for Excellence. The Youth Achiever 2007 Award was given to 24-year-old Somdev Dev Burman, the first Indian to win the US collegiate tennis title. The Community Service Award went to Dr Navin Shah, while Dr Joy Cherian received the Lifetime Award for Service to the Community
'There is so much you learn on a Mira Nair set.'
'October end, during a checkup for an autoimmune thing I got a shock diagnosis: a routine scan revealed a small malignant tumour in the kidney. Utter bolt from the blue.'
'It's official: we won. I'm going to Albany to fight to tax the rich, heal the sick, house the poor & build a socialist New York. But I can't do it alone. To win socialism, we'll need a mass movement of the multiracial working class as well. So let's build one,' Mamdani tweeted.
Shahana Goswami's Santosh has been shortlisted for the best foreign film Oscars.
Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies has been picked as India's official entry for Oscars 2025.
The second teaser of the international series Dune: Prophecy is out and it has our very own Tabu looking very intense.
'I hadn't worked for three-and-a-half years.' 'I felt industry was based on who you knew.' 'I didn't belong to a network.'
Tabu's character is described as 'strong, intelligent and alluring'.
Civil rights activist Deepa Iyer, former executive director, South Asian Americans Leading Together, a social justice organisation thought after a visit to the minority businesses hit in recent weeks that the tragic story in Ferguson, Missouri, offers Indian Americans an opportunity to stand up and decry police brutality and show sympathy and support for African Americans in the beleaguered city
'You've to wait for the correct project and the right character.'
Queen Of Katwe feels almost like Mira Nair is making a Bollywood film in Africa, notes Raja Sen.
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