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This weekend is the San Diego International Kids Film Festival. One of the short films showing will be “Failure Groupies,”… Read more

The Hundred Foot Journey captures the rise of Indian influence in the world’s culture. When an Indian family opens a… Read more

Sholay opens to a train arriving at a station leading to a scene of two men riding on horseback across… Read more

“The River” is a weird film. It’s weird for a lot of reasons. It was made in 1951, when experimental… Read more

Fire was the first Indian movie Puja ever showed me. It was her way of introducing me to some of… Read more

Kahaani is a pretty solid mystery thriller. It starts with a chemical terrorist attack that kills all the passengers on… Read more

“Is she vamp or victim?” the gossip columnists Nayla asks, “which should I label her?” The Dirty Picture is based… Read more

Whenever I learn about Indian history, I am always surprised by the long history of interconnectedness between India and the… Read more

Who is junglee (uncultured, wild)? Is it the mannered, wealthy people who live lives according to the rules of society,… Read more

Well Done Abba is a delightful farcical comedy about corruption in India. Armaan Ali (Boman Irani) is a chauffeur in… Read more

In the 1960s, many Westerners flocked to India on a spiritual journey. Most left after weeks or months. Hippie Masala… Read more

About as long as I’ve known Puja, she’s shared with me stories of the Mahabharata and tried to explain Hinduism… Read more