New Delhi | 4 months ago
Rushdie might visit India for 'Midnight's Children' promotion
New Delhi, Dec 19 - Controversial author Salman Rushdie may fly down to India towards February-end to promote the film adaptation of his Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children, says the movie's director Deepa Mehta.I am sure he is coming. I was told by PVR Pictures -, that he will be here for the publicity of the film a week before it opens in theatres. That will be nice, Mehta told IANS h ... read more

New York | 1 year ago
Earliest archaeological evidence of Christianity on view
New York, Feb 29 - A group of archaeologists and experts on religious subjects presented in New York the results of a research project they say enabled them to obtain the first archaeological evidence of Christianity from a time before the Gospels were written.Up to now it seemed to me impossible that there were tombs from that time with credible testimony about Jesus's resurrection or images of t ... read more

Toronto | 1 year ago
IIFA show is 'Indian kitsch', not Indian culture: Deepa Mehta
Toronto, June 22 - Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta has described the International Indian Film Academy - Awards here this week as 'Indian kitsch'.The three-day Bollywood show does not represent Indian culture, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker said here Tuesday.'Bollywood is not Indian culture, it's pop culture. There's a big difference,' Mehta told the Canadian Press.To describe the IIFA Awards a ... read more

New Delhi | 2 years ago
Aamir on Berlinale jury
New Delhi, Jan 22 - Bollywood actor-filmmaker Aamir Khan, who is busy amassing accolades for his latest project 'Dhobi Ghat', is on the international jury of the upcoming 61st Berlin International Film Festival.The 45-year-old is sharing the honour with Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Australian producer Jan Chapman, German actress Nina Hoss, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin and British costume desig ... read more

Patna | 2 years ago
Bihar's Super 30 impresses Hollywood's James Cameron
Patna, Dec 14 - Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron was all ears when Anand Kumar, who founded Bihar's Super 30 free coaching centre for students, narrated the real life stories of hope that his institute has generated year after year.'Cameron told me it was amazing to listen to my real life stories of hope. He was so impressed that he hinted at using such stories with people across the world,' Kuma ... read more

Abu Dhabi | 2 years ago
Abu Dhabi film fest moving in right direction
Abu Dhabi, Oct 26 - The fourth Abu Dhabi Film Festival is charting the right course, dishing out a large variety of entertainers and pulling in the glamour quotient with stars like Adrien Brody, Julianne Moore, Uma Thurman and Clive Owen.From a Hollywood movie like 'Secretariat' to a compelling conflict tale from Canada like 'Incendies' and the animated movie 'Chico & Rita' from a Spanish director ... read more

Abu Dhabi | 2 years ago
Tales of victory, survival shine at Abu Dhabi film fest
Abu Dhabi, Oct 16 - A housewife in a race course, a man stuck in the wilderness of a forest and an emotional story from a war zone -- three tales of victory and survival set in three different circumstances marked an interesting beginning to the Abu Dhabi Film Festival that has a bouquet of interesting international stories.Based on the real life story of a housewife called Penny Chenery - who dec ... read more

4 years ago
I love the canvas of Midnight's Children, says Deepa Mehta of latest project
New Delhi, Dec 9 - Veteran Indian Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta is busy conceiving the script of 'Midnight's Children' - her latest project based on the Salman Rushdie bestseller. 'I will write the script with Salman next year. Salman has a part in the movie,' Mehta told IANS in an informal chat Monday. The film-maker is in the capital to catch up with her family - mother, sister a ... read more

4 years ago
Punjabi no barrier for 'Heaven On Earth': Deepa Mehta
Mumbai, Sep 25 - Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta says there will be no barrier to her latest film 'Heaven On Earth' because it is in Punjabi, as domestic violence has universal resonance and audiences across the globe can relate to it. This was evident at the recent Toronto Film Festival where the film got a standing ovation. 'This was the film's first public screening. And no one saw it as ... read more

4 years ago
Young Indo-Canadians research historical journeys in India
New Delhi, Sep 7 - With a growing desire among young second generation Indians abroad to explore historical events that had a deep impact on the diaspora, two young Indo-Canadians have sifted through archival material in Delhi over several months to focus on significant journeys by ship and air. Alia Somani, a doctoral researcher, is looking at two events - the 1914 Komagata Maru incident when I ... read more