'I have had a US passport for 26 years. I have a Hindu name. But none of that matters it seems.''Today I have also become an immigrant from Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Syria.'Today I......
'Having a voice at the table means the other side has to show up to listen. It became clear that wouldn't happen,' says actor Maulik Pancholy, one of the 10 members who resigned this week from the......
With just a few days left for the 85th Annual Academy Awards, Rediff's critics -- Raja Sen, Sukanya Verma, Aseem Chhabra and Arthur J Pais -- tried a bit of Oscar soothsaying in the major......
There is a world that Satyajit Ray created in his films that I wanted to be a part of -- as Durga bathed in the rain to Ravi Shankar's music; when Charulata sat on the swing regretting she never......
M Night Shyamalan was 29 when his third film The Sixth Sense (1999) opened to a tremendous response. The box office success of the film -- it earned $662 million worldwide -- propelled the young......
Fans of the Before trilogy have grown up with Celine and Jesse... The films, says Aseem Chhabra, are charming, funny, romantic and very talky, but also close to real life. When filmmaker Richard......
'Her death has left a small hole in me. That little space that her songs and her screen image always filled in me. She had not worked in films for years, but somehow I always sensed she was there,......