Bollywood reviews – Samuel Benoit

My Name is Khan (2010)

Samuel Benoit

13 November 2010

A long time ago, the first time an Indian in India started to look around and find that many of his or her friends and loved ones were all of a sudden somewhere else, India was facing a decision. How are we supposed to feel about all of our countrymen who are choosing to live…

Bollywood reviews

Bollywood, Kojal, MNIK, My Name is Khan, non-resident Indians, NRI, Shahrukh Khan, SRK

Sholay (1975)

Samuel Benoit

8 October 2010

This post is the second in an ongoing series of reviews of popular Bollywood movies. The first was of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. One method I have been using to convey the importance of the Bollywood films I choose to show at my ongoing film festival is to compare them to their Hollywood equivalent in terms of placement on…

Bollywood reviews

Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood, curry western, film, Gabbar Singh, Sholay, Slumdog Millionaire

NEW FEATURE: Reviews of Bollywood movies

Samuel Benoit

23 July 2010

About a year ago a colleague of mine invited me to join her to a movie night at a friend’s place. She forwarded me the invitation and I saw that it was not a movie night but an institution. This guy had been progressively taking a group of his friends on an exploration of critically…

Bollywood reviews, Movies, Travel

Bollywood, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Filmfare Awards, Hindi, india, Kajol, Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, movie review, Raj, Shahrukh Khan, Simran, SRK