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Ronnie Screwvala: The Indian billionaire working for Disney

Bollywood pioneer Ronnie Screwvala is Disney’s point man in India. By Kurt Wagner | FORTUNE Ronnie Screwvala believes in India. As a self-made entrepreneur, Screwvala turned his small cable television company, UTV, into a multimedia conglomerate worthy of Disney’s (DIS) attention. (Disney fully purchased the company for an undisclosed amount in 2012, and Screwvala is… Continue reading Ronnie Screwvala: The Indian billionaire working for Disney

Kainaz Amaria in Conversation: Being Zoroastrian

Photographer Kainaz Amaria has been born and brought up in America. As a child, when she’d tell her friends at school she was a Zoroastrian, they thought she was pretending to be a superhero. Source: Firstpost.com Years later, Amaria came to India to understand her Zoroastrian heritage better by spending time with and documenting the… Continue reading Kainaz Amaria in Conversation: Being Zoroastrian

The Best Things in Life Are Free: Little Zizou on Hulu

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

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Sooni Taraporevala: Salaam Bombay! is contemporary in content and style

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

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Film debut at 92: The Making of a Documentary on the Dadar Parsi Colony

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

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