A boon for new actors, creative freedom for directors and writers and a treat for audience, digital platform is pushing the boundaries of acting and fast gaining popularity. Using the uninhibited structure of web realm, there is an influx of projects that opens opportunities for new actors who could not make it to Bollywood. Something […]
After the successful Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar’s theatre play ”˜Kaifi Aur Mein’ and Arif Zakaria and Sonali Kulkarni’s ”˜Gardish mein Taare’ in 2018 and ”˜A poetic evening with Deepti Naval’ earlier this year SAI Creative Arts Network ( SCREAN ) Australia now proudly presents comedy English drama ”˜The Siddhus of Upper Juhu’ in November. […]
By Devaki Parthasarathy There are movies, then there are great movies and then there’s Super Deluxe movies! With this movie, Director Thiagarajan Kumararaja has set the bar too high for others to follow. In the movie four stories run parallely but are somehow connected. There is a heartless and horny cop, a quirky don, a […]
Ridham Janve’s ‘Gold-Laden Sheep’ and ‘The Sacred Mountain‘ nominated for Best Film Brisbane: Manoj Bajpayee has been nominated for the third time at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, this time for his performance in Devashish Makhija’s Bhonsle, while the film has also been honoured with a nomination for the Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO. Manoj Bajpayee […]
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has today revealed the films nominated for this year’s AACTA Award for Best Asian Film presented by Eureka International Group (EIG). Over the past year, the global reach of Asian film continues to grow with an increasing number of high-quality, creative productions being recognised at international […]
By Neeru Saluja Meet Guneet Monga, whose documentary on menstruation taboos, ”˜Period. End of Sentence’ has won the Oscars in the Documentary Short Subject category. The documentary, currently streaming on Netflix, was part of The Pad Project, started by students at the Oakwood School in Los Angeles and their teacher, Melissa Berton. Set in a […]
By Neeru Saluja There are actors and then there are trendsetters. At a time when actresses played the love interest, dutiful wife or doting daughter, actress Zeenat Aman broke the rules of the stereotype 70s’ actress. Glamourous, stylish and sensuous, she ruled the silver screen as she picked roles that were unconventional and bold. The […]
Sydney girl, Srishti Aggarwal, 22 years old, double degree finance/commerce student, is the Raj Suri Miss India Australia 2019 winner. Srishti is in the final year of her graduation from Macquarie University, Sydney. In addition to English, Srishti can speak Hindi and Punjabi. Srishti is passionate about body image and self-confidence in women across Australia. She personally was over […]
A Review by Gita Malik Mission Mangal is the story of space scientists who give their heart and soul to Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM).Very well played by the obsessed space scientist Akshay Kumar supported by the equally obsessed average housewife cum scientist, Vidya Balan. Juggling home duties and her passion for beyond the stars, her […]
By Neena Badhwar Kersi Meher-Homji, our sports writer who loves hearing Indian music, had interviewed Reena Mehta for The Indian Down Under first describing her voice lilting, magical and mischievous when he heard her sing in India Club’s concert the song ”˜Thandi Hawaayein’ in the mid of 40 degree heat of Sydney summer, which just […]