Category: Film

Actress Delnaz Irani is excited about going back to her roots of a Parsi girl for the first time on-screen with the TV show Kehta hai Dil Jee Le Zara. Source: Deccan Herald Delnaz has been in the industry for over a decade with many serials and films to her credit, but has never played… Continue reading Delnaz Irani: In theatre,I do dark roles

Meet the 16-year-old ‘Issaq’ heroine, Amyra Dastur. Newbie Amyra Dastur makes her dream debut in ‘Issaq’! Catch her stills Author: Sonali Kumar Source: apunkachoice.com   She is the newest to enter Bollywood! Just of 16, the Parsi girl Amyra Dastur makes her dream debut in the love story Issaq, opposite Prateik Babbar. Gifted with dainty… Continue reading Amyra Dastur Joins Bollywood

Toronto-based filmmaker Yaz Rabadi’s latest short film, The Beard, continues making rounds on the festival circuit well into 2013. The Beard is a powerful, gritty and emotional piece of filmmaking that tells the story of an elderly Sikh who has been victimized, and how he struggles to deal with his given circumstances in the aftermath… Continue reading Yazzad Rabadi's The Beard to Screen at Manhattan Film Festival

Sooni Taraporevala’s film Little Zizou — which can be watched for free these days on Hulu — always makes me yearn for my first true love: Bombay. Because Little Zizou represents the perfect template of the city known to outsiders as Mumbai but beloved by insiders forever as Bombay, the craziest, most chaotically beautiful place… Continue reading The Best Things in Life Are Free: Little Zizou on Hulu

Salaam Bombay! that is being re-released today marked the beginning of  Sooni Taraporevala’s screenwriting career and a momentous association with filmmaker Mira Nair twenty-five years ago. Since then, Sooni Taraporevala has given memorable screenplays like The Namesake and Mississippi Masala that won her the Osella award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival in… Continue reading Sooni Taraporevala: Salaam Bombay! is contemporary in content and style

Max and Rohinton Unwalla see no reason for public display of affection to be tagged as nuisance. In one quick swoop, love meets devotion when Max’s candy tongue flutters across Unwalla’s face, before finally enveloping his nose as the two take a breather after their morning walk on the steps of Building no. 782 at… Continue reading Film debut at 92: The Making of a Documentary on the Dadar Parsi Colony

Jamsheed Mistri, a sixth grader from Covington Elementary School in the Los Altos School District submitted the film below as part of a submission to the LASD Film Festival 2013 Deena Mistri Campus was launched in 2012.The campus is being built in Korangi, an impoverished area of Karachi which would serve children who would otherwise… Continue reading Deena Mistri Campus: A Film by Jamsheed Mistri