So is The Raid: Redemption any good?

You know how various Hollywood and Bollywood studios are constantly touting whatever new movie as an ‘action spectacular’ or some other set of undeserved superlatives? Yeah those folks need to use words because they don’t have the action to back it up. The Raid: Redemption is an Indonesian action movie that opens in India this Friday (11th May) and it is what all those Salman Khan  and Sylvester Stallone movies are trying to be but don’t... Read More

Should I Quit?

This is a time of shrinking resources. Even big Hollywood studio projects have to reach far and wide for the final funding on their hundred-million-dollar films. So what can one struggling filmmaker do? Make friends, lots of them. There are aspiring actors, musicians and even producers all around you. Go out, meet people, find the ones you think you could imagine working with. Again and again. The hit debut is a pipe dream. The reason we read (and... Read More

Those Cool Rockstar Posters

I’ve been a member of the website Behance for a while and as part of that membership I will periodically receive emails when new designs are uploaded to that showcase site. It was no different early last week, when I received intimation that an artist named Grzegorz Domaradzki, from Poland, had published a new project to his page. Except, that the people in the thumbnail picture looked awfully familiar. Upon closer examination I realized that... Read More

Cover No. 1: Bhaag DK Bose from Delhi Belly

The song Bhaag DK Bose from the film Delhi Belly is a superhit or, in Bollywood parlance, “souprhit”. Say it fast and as if it were one word – “souprhit, souprhit!!!” Yup that’s kind of the excitement that surrounds this massive song, and after it was stuck in my head in a constant loop, I just had to cover it. Elvis was excited enough by my version to make a very cool video for it. Check it out below: The original, in all its balls-to-the-wall... Read More

Film Crews: Shooting Themselves in the Foot

This piece has been withdrawn and will reappear online at a later date.  Read More

New York, NY

We landed in New York on December 31st so technically this all began last year. As the plane taxied to a stop and we awaited clearance to pick up our bags and head out through JFK into the Big Apple, tiny snowflakes started dotting the air. Within minutes we were witnessing a proper snowfall (only my second ever) and by the time we picked up our carry-on luggage and trudged into the airport, the ground was covered in white powder. We were working... Read More