Kapil's Korner

Last weekend was a bore. Sick and down with no action at all. Read a lot and caught up with ‘How I met your mother’ season 2, finally. To kill the sickness blues I went DVD shopping. And I was in a total retro mood thanks to my current read – Bollywood by Mihir Bose. [...]

Last night the MacBook refused to go online. After a 2 hour struggle it just won’t work. So I gave up. Which lead me to dig out the DVD of Harishchandrachi Factory [Theatrical Trailer] – A Marathi film depicting the struggle of Dadasaheb Phalke in making Raja Harishchandra in 1913, India’s first feature film, thus [...]

Filmstars. The Divas. We like to walk, talk and dress like our favourite star. And now you have the option to even holiday like the stars in their on-screen avatars only, of course. SOTC in an interesting tie-up with Yashraj Films presents what they call the Enchanted Journey. Travel Packages which explore Europe and promise [...]

Read an article in Campaign India which inspired me to put this down. Farhan Akhtar This is the guy who once again re-confirms my “life-wish” to make a movie someday. His ability to play so many roles (film director, actor & singer) and that too with superb performances is commendable. Firstly, I would thank him [...]

Creativity is not a cut and paste formula. And I guess what works once, maybe even twice may not work again and again. That’s what Madhur Bhandarkar seems to have missed out on in his latest project – fashion. Gay designers, the need to sleep around for work, drug abuse, alcoholism & a bit more [...]

Two weeks back I saw Rock On and blogged the review in a Letter to Farhan. I later sent an email to Farhan’s production company Excel Enterntainment expressin my wish to share the letter with Farhan himself. A day later I got a response from a production supervisor at Excel saying that the letter had [...]

I watched Rock On and thought I should send a congratulatory note to Farhan & his team for a good job they had done. Dear Farhan, I couldn’t ask for a better treat. I watched Rock On with my wife and I think it was time well spent on my birthday. “Multi-talented” is the word [...]

Yash Raj Film’s latest venture Bachna ae Haseeno may or may not be a box office hit. But if there is something they have hit for sure is a a good in-film brand placement initiative with Microsoft’s Halo 3. The brand team for Halo 3 at Microsoft, India should be commended for a wonderful branding [...]

For some strange reason I have been thinking “radio” all of last week. That’s maybe because I spent three sick days last week listening to a lot of music. — from inframan – (?) Idea #1: You’ve got TV channels dedicated to religious talks – Aastha, Sanskar and a few more. How about having Radio [...]

Thursday night is attractive to watch a movie at Inox, the Manhattan card gives you one free ticket with every one purchased. So it’s two for the value of one – And at Inox rates it matters. Wife and me decided to catch the late night show of Woh Lamhe. A movie aptly named, this [...]