This a tale of tragedy laced with humiliation and physical pain. It’s about forgetting names. I was at a noisy party with a friend when a girl yelled out a warm ‘hi’. Instantaneousl read more...
I write this as I’m shooting in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. With a country that has the second longest beachshore in the world, it’s no wonder a lot of leisure time in Rio revolves around i read more...
Having recently come off a 27-hour flight sleeping, waking, eating, halfway around the world got me thinking of all the entertaining sleeping experiences I have had on flights. (No, this is not about read more...
One of the most memorable lessons my mother taught me without having to beat it into me (as many others, but that's a story for another column), was - learn to speak any one language really well, mak read more...
1998. I am shooting for Split Wide Open on the roads of Bombay, as it was known then. The shot is simple, I have to walk down the pavement. The street’s cordoned off with ropes and bounce read more...
A few years ago I was in Germany at a party at the Berlin film festival. One of the guests present was a famous mountaineer who had recently scaled Everest. Deeply impressed, I congratulated him. H read more...
I know I promised you a ‘the-more-things-change-the-more-they-remain-the-same-in-Bollywood’ piece, but am going to switch the mood a little. It’s a Sunday morning and I’m gett read more...
As promised last week, here's the one that is called -What They Really Mean When They Say.(Producer to actor) 'Sabhi log jaante hain, aap true actor hain. Aapke liye sirf role mayne rakhta hain...' - read more...
All right, so this is an exaggeration, but here’s a glossary of words (you thought you knew the meaning of) used in the mainstream film industry.Get-up : Not to be confused with the electric read more...
Interior. Modestly furnished living room. Mid-morning.Scene opens on two men. One (HT City representative) looks supremely confident, the other (RB) looks cheery. A little bit too cheery.HT: Hi, Mr B read more...