LIFF SPECIAL REVIEW: Babylon Sisters June 17, 2017 | by Katherine Matthews Twelve-year-old Kamla (Amber Dutta) lives with her parents Shanti (Nav Ghotra) and Ashok (Rahul Dutta) in a run-down apartment building…
LIFF SPECIAL REVIEW: Newton June 16, 2017 | by Katherine Matthews The Chhattisgarh region of central India is rich in mineral resources, but its people live in poverty, eking out a…
“The future you has to be a you that loves. Otherwise it will cease to flourish.” – SRK TED talks on Humanity, Fame and Love May 18, 2017 | by Katherine Matthews Social media was all abuzz recently with the news that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) would be doing a…
Mostly Sunny Movie Review January 14, 2017 | by Katherine Matthews “I don’t know what my legacy will be,” says porn star turned Bollywood starlet Sunny Leone near the end of…
1000 Rupee Note (Ek Hazarachi Note) Movie Review September 23, 2016 | by Katherine Matthews Every once in a while, a film comes along and just socks you squarely in the gut, causing such a…
Konkona Sen Sharma: “It’s a great honour for A Death in the Gunj to be chosen for TIFF” July 29, 2016 | by Katherine Matthews Piers Handling, CEO and Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International…
LIFF SPECIAL REVIEW: Toba Tek Singh July 24, 2016 | by Katherine Matthews Saadat Hassan (Vinay Pathak, whose character’s name serves as a nod to the author who wrote the story the film…
Zeal for Unity Films – LIFF Special Review July 20, 2016 | by Katherine Matthews The London Indian Film Festival 2016 is presenting the World Premiere of two Pakistani films made under the Zeal for…
The Documentaries of Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy – LIFF Special Review July 19, 2016 | by Katherine Matthews There is a bittersweet bit of irony at play in the fact that Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Academy-award winning short documentary…
Jugni – LIFF Special Movie Review July 18, 2016 | by Katherine Matthews When Vibhavari (Sugandha Garg), an up-and-coming Bollywood music director, finds herself facing a creative block, she sets off for Punjab…