india + movies

So crazy... I really hope this movie leads to good things for these kids.

Quoted: The child stars of "Slumdog Millionaire" will take their first airplane trip when they attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Wow, big news for the 'Slumdog' kids...

Quoted: The two main child actors from "Slumdog Millionaire" are to receive new homes from the Indian authorities after the small-budget movie swept the Oscars, winning eight Academy Awards.

Jai Ho!

Quoted: Children broke into Bollywood dance numbers and crowds cheered in the narrow lanes of a teeming Mumbai slum on Monday as they gathered to root for the hometown heroes who nabbed the Oscars' highest honor.

This one is really nice too, with more music from South Asia and Central Asia. Lots from Indian DJs from the UK.

Quoted: Slumdog Millionaire" is not your average Oscar contender. It's not about WWII survivors or tragically flawed geniuses. It doesn't star Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, or or Meryl Streep. Instead, "Slumdog" has no big-name actors, a miniscule budget, and a good chunk of the flick was shot in Hindi. With the film racking up four awards at Sunday's Golden Globes, plus taking home five trophies at last week's Critics' Choice Awards, "Slumdog Millionaire" has become an unlikely front-runner for Oscar gold. So why has this movie, which as late as last spring looked like it might be released straight to DVD, become such a huge hit with both critics and audiences? Here are a few reasons:

Checking this documentary out at SIFF tomorrow. I hear it's one of India's stronger entries, curious to see it...

Quoted: “What sin did I commit to be born a woman?” These chilling words of 21-year-old housemaid Lakshmi reverberate throughout Mumbai-based filmmaker Nishtha Jain’s extraordinary documentary. Jain turns the camera on her part-time maid, and in the process illuminates the complex relationship between employer and servant, filmmaker, and subject.

The International Malayalam Film Awards 2007 - IMFA will be the first ever expatriate audience choice awards recognizing the outstanding performances and contributions in Malayalam Film Industry. The debut show of the regular annual event would be held in Dubai along with an electrifying entertainment show towards the end of this year.

The Malayalam movie industry is going to enjoy first-of-its’s-kind global awards, voted exclusively by its lovers across the planet.

n desi masala amp; mallu masala movies, Shakeela is a very popular celebrity in and as a South Indian actress from India who had acted in many in Indian b grade movies. She had started her career as an actress in B-grade Malayalam mallu movies, Telugu and Tamil movies in the early 1990 s.

UTV, the studio behind Rang De Basantu, avoids song and dance love stories.

Quoted: UTV Motion Pictures is using Hollywood methods to modernise Indian film