Comments on: Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles: 2008 line-up

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:14:40 +0000

Like this

By: boston_mahesh

boston_mahesh — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:07:06 +0000

there are quite a few docs' about Partition and how it impacted the western border. However, the northeastern border also saw lots of sadness and bloodshed. Finally, the East Pakistanis are more similar to the Indian Bengalis than the Punjabi Pakistanis are to Indian Punjabis. The former community has one script and one language. The latter has 3 scripts, about 4.5 languages (punjabi, seraiki, multani, hindko, Hindi/Urdu).

Why is there more focus on the northwestern border?

By: Nina P

Nina P — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:41:24 +0000

Sita might play at the Smithsonian this October - please stay tuned. I don't know what's up with Loins, but I hope it gets a US theatrical release soon.

By: movie-starved in boston

movie-starved in boston — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:24:09 +0000

5 Ã‚Â· Nina P said

You can catch Loins of Punjab Presents at the festival too.

any chance of loins or sita playing in boston or dc? or is it possible to get the dvds for these somewhere? i'd love to watch both of these movies.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:12:44 +0000

For anyone in the Minneapolis – St. Paul area, the documentary mentioned in the above post “The Sky Below”, (along with 4 others) will be shown at the University of Minnesota this coming weekend (4/26) as part of their Traveling Film South Asia presentation.

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~nepalgsa/fsa2008/

By: oliveoyl

oliveoyl — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:11:16 +0000

Just watched a screening of “Shot in Bombay” at the Toronto HotDocs today. Pretty hilarious, realistic, behind the scenes depiction of Bollywood gangster movies. Found Apoorva Lakhia to be much better off playing a director on screen than the real one behind the camera. His spontaneity, humour was a sure treat!

By: abdul

abdul — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:57:56 +0000

The new Harold and Kumar movie is also being shown. Not sure how this fits in the film festival theme.

By: Nina P

Nina P — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:26:27 +0000

You can catch Loins of Punjab Presents at the festival too.

By: mexicalidesi

mexicalidesi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:25:17 +0000

Somewhat parantheticial, but for those of you who go to the festival, be sure to stop by Restaurant Tantra (in Silverlake) when they are doing the festival dinner. The chef, Dila, is flying in from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he has a restaurant with great food (I have a house is SMA so eat there often). Also, for the girls, he is a cutie.

By: Sepoy Sunny

Sepoy Sunny — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:38:22 +0000

This makes me so nostalgic about the kite flying day in Gujarat. For a while, the tall TV antennas on the top of every house, ruined the experience, but then cable came along and it wasn't too bad.

I went to a couple of kite flying events in Houston and they were nice but it lacked the "thousand rainbows in the sky" effect. I have tried to recreate the kite flying by flying home made kites on the beaches of southern California, but without the competition of being able to hold on to and being able to "cut" the kites, it doesn't have the same aderelin rush.

I'll plan my next visit to India to include this day.