BEST BOLLYWOOD SONGS 2014 - Top 10

Image : Geralt   It is that time of the year again, when we all reminisce about experiences lived throughout the exiting year. Here is the ...

RIVER TO RIVER Festival: A Bridge Between India and Italy

This past week saw the end of the 14th edition of River to River Florence Indian Film Festival. The Festival is part of the 50 days of ...

HAPPY JOURNEY: Love Goes for a Spin!

  Happy Journey is one of those little gems whose scenes one likes to allow our imagination to revisit again and again... A haunting tale w...

GOD IS A GAMER A World of Thrills

After hitting gold with books such as Devil in Pinstripes , The Incredible Banker and I Bought the Monk's Ferrari , among many other ti...

JAVED AKHTAR: A Poet in Paris

Javed Akhtar , award-winning  writer and lyricist of popular Indian cinema,  a staunch defender of the feminist cause and a supporter...

ANDAZ APNA APNA 20 Year Anniversary

Time to revisit Crime Master Gogo and the playful equation between the legendary Amar and Prem (and their love interests) this month as Anda...

DECODING BOLLYWOOD A Book Review

This week I eagerly received a book from India I was waiting for. Sonia Golani's Decoding Bollywood holds 15 interviews with Indian film...

HAIDER Rocks Rome Film Festival

Image: |PTI Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider has been the talk of the town since October 2nd in India, but it is in Rome that the film has bagge...

FILM FESTIVAL Promotes SOCIAL CHANGE

  YES! I am the CHANGE , initiated by YES FOUNDATION, the social development arm of YES BANK, has emerged as the largest filmmaking challeng...

A.R. RAHMAN Turns Hindi Film Producer

Diwali has had its host of topics to write about, from news on a French film based on the Mumbai 2008 terrorist attacks to commenting on the...

FINDING FANNY Music Review: Goa's New Symbol

Granted. Homi Adajania's Finding Fanny has enjoyed a fair number of accolades since its recent release this October. However, the Hindi...

10 Indian Films to Anticipate - MUMBAI FILM FESTIVAL 2014

Following a hurried crowd funding campaign recently organized by the MAMI, the Mumbai Film Festival has successfully avoided falling short o...

AJAY DEVGN Supports Altruistic Endeavor

Image: Saharasamay.com   This week, Mumbai Police joined hands with Ajay Devgn at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan for a noble cause. The actor m...

MARGARITA WITH A STRAW: Life's Intense Glow

A very special film has been all the rage this year at the Toronto Film Festival and has obtained the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cin...

SATYAMEV JAYATE New Autumn Season 2014

It's that time of the year again and Aamir Khan fans will be happy to know Satyamev Jayate is up for a new season starting this 5th Octo...

MANGALYAAN MARS FEAT CELEBRATED

Image: outerspaceuniverse.org  As Mangalyaan, the spacecraft of the Mars Orbiter Mission encountered the Red Planet on 24 September 2014 at ...

BOLLYWOOD SINGERS for Women Internet Literacy

After a very long hiatus, here we are happy to bring you some fresh and useful news. MARD (Men Against Rape and Discrimination) , Farhan Akh...

SHAH RUKH goes SLAM! in America

Following a long hiatus of 10 years, Shah Rukh Khan is ready to conquer Canadian and American shores this September with the SLAM! tour. A s...

FOOTBALL and ANIMAL WELFARE Unite Glitterati

The football match everyone was waiting for during Mumbai's monsoon season took place without the much feared rain and mud at the Cooper...

LOVE IS A FOOTBALL FIELD: Embrace Animal Welfare

The FIFA World Cup might have finished cheering its winner but gear up to support an upcoming football match in Mumbai featuring some of Bol...

PABLO TRAPERO and VIKAS SWARUP: An Indian Mystery

Anyone tuned into the world cinema scene and particularly Latin American cinema is surely familiar with Pablo Trapero's socially relevan...

IRRFAN and KANGNA's FRENCH CONNECTION

Image: indiaexpress:com In a new venture after his success, Revolver Rani , Sai Kabir will continue to develop his creative relationship wit...

A SUMMER OF MOVIES: Let's Recommend...

Image: paris.zigzag.fr  With summer having arrived, despite this blogger's busy schedule, time to watch films has become thankfully more...

BEST INDIAN FILMS BY WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Image: thefeministwire.com  Review by Haricharan Pudipeddi who blogs at Movie Roundup When we talk about “Best Indian Films by Women Filmm...

TITLI: India's Promising Gem at Cannes Film Festival

As the Cannes Film Festival (67th edition) has started this week, we at the Hindi Cinema Blog are bringing you the latest on Titli , directe...

SHAH RUKH KHAN: #1 on FORBES Leadership List

“ Forbes Middle-East made me feel special with their special edition cover story on my work in entertainment. Off to Dubai for the launch. ...

VISHAL BHARDWAJ charms Paris in the Springtime

“I love Paris in the springtime” says a well-known song. It is indeed through song and music that Paris has taken on new colours this month ...

PENN MASALA and the Evolution of BOLLYWOOD MUSIC

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Penn Masala has been lighting up the speakers of hundreds of thousands of Internet and social media users around the wo...

Wedding in Italy: RANI MUKHERJEE and ADITYA CHOPRA

After long years of denying any sort of romantic connection, actress Rani Mukherjee and writer/director Aditya Chopra from the Yash Raj prod...

BOMBAY MOVIE: Digital Release of a Film Making Journey

The IFC Center in New York has held the theatrical premiere of Bombay Movie on April 15 th and the film has simultaneously benefited from ...

PINTEREST Reaches Out to HINDI Speakers

  The esthetic and highly successful social bookmarking site Pinterest has recently reached out to Hindi speakers by launching a Hindi vers...

JAL: A Majestic Tale of Human Truths

  There must be something truly inspiring and epic about the Great Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. Films that have had scenes filmed in the auster...

VISHAL BHARDWAJ's Flowering Tree in PARIS

  Words lack to describe the talent of musician, director, writer and producer Vishal Bhardwaj. I have been a long time admirer of his work ...

YOUNGISTAAN: Rule of the Candyfloss Young

  Election season is ring-a-ringing and the films coming out these last couple of weeks have been bowing to the debate atmosphere.  Youngi...