The city — sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
Not an insignificant film at all
An Insignificant Man, a documentary chronicling the rise of activist Arvind Kejriwal from a whistle blower to a controversial politician, has been making noise in film festivals across India and abroad.
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Recently, another laurel was added to the list of honours for the crowdfunded film directed by Khushboo Ranka as it won the special mention prize at the Warsaw Film Festival. There is some good news for Mumbaikars too as the film will premier
on Sunday at the MAMI film festival.
Let me take my pick
Pic/Shadab Khan
Former actress Twinkle Khanna at the launch of a gourmet food store’s line of festive gifts at Cuffe Parade last evening.
No Great Walls for this cinema
Starting tomorrow, this city’s movie buffs will have a hard time picking which films to watch and which ones to skip. And MAMI isn’t the only reason.
Poster of Miss Granny
A Chinese film festival, organised by the India China Film Society in collaboration with the China Film Association, is bringing a bouquet of films from our eastern neighbour to Mumbai, and none of them have been released here before.
The week-long festival will showcase popular and critically acclaimed movies that are an eclectic mix of action, romance, fantasy and drama. Good to see that despite the uneasy ties with the dragon, cinema collaborations seem warm.
Pune’s sign off Saturday
It is pack away your binoculars time for Pune’s punters as the city’s racing season winds up after three months this Saturday. For Mumbai’s equestrian enthusiasts, too, the city of Peshwas has been their weekend destination these past months.
A race in progress
The chairman of the Royal Western India Turf Club, Vivek Jain, will be honouring the leading trainer, jockey and apprentice (who get maximum wins) for the season on the final day, which is keenly contested amongst the professionals. Then, it will be curtains for a month, before the Mumbai season flags off on November 20.
Sabyasachi takes the pottery route now
Fans of sitcom Friends would remember the episode, where Pottery Barn was mentioned more than once. While Ross and Rachel rave about the premium home décor store, Phoebe, in the end, grudgingly falls for its products too. Looks like, our very own Sabyasachi Mukherjee has also succumbed.
Sabyasachi’s trinket tray collection for the brand
Marking his first foray into home decor, the designer has entered into a collaboration with the décor brand, and his collection of over 50 pieces, designed exclusively for them, was recently unveiled in New York.
From plates and jewellery boxes featuring floral and animal artwork to brocade and embroidered pillows, Sabyasachi’s love of all things India shows in the collection. And while there are no stores of the brand in India, fans of the designer can splurge online.
Junoon for culture
In a recent opinion piece, Salman Ahmad, founding member of the popular Pakistani music group Junoon and professor of Sufi music at New York’s Queens College, expressed his sorrow over the recent breakdown of cultural ties between India and Pakistan.
“What the threat-makers forget is this — culture humanises what politics demonises,” he wrote poignantly. Ahmad also mentioned a heartwarming incident that occurred in Delhi this February. At a UNESCO concert, an Indian mother had brought her teenage daughter to a show by Junoon.
Her daughter was named Sayonee after the group’s hit song, since the mother had grown up on Junoon’s music. “That is the power of music across generations and barbed-wire borders,” Ahmad concluded.
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