[COMING Friday, Jan. 15 (noon EST), SAMMA/SAJA webcast with Jay Sean, who hit #1 on the Billboard charts with "Down" - WEBCAST LINK: http://bit.ly/sajammajay]
SAMMA, South Asians in Media, Marketing and Entertainment and SAJA, South Asian Journalists Association, present the latest in their series of high-profile webcasts with some of the leading South Asian achievers in global media and entertainment...
A conversation with Ram Gopal Varma, director of "Rann," a fast-paced drama set in the world of media in today's India; starring Amitabh Bachchan, Paresh Rawal and Ritesh Deshmukh.
Varma is a leading Indian film director, screenwriter and producer and a voice of the new Indian popular cinmena. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres— psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, politician-criminal nexus, and musicals —and in a number of languages, including Telugu and Hindi. His biggest movies include "Rangeela" (1995); "Company" (2002) and "Satya" (1998). Join us for what promises to be a lively discussion about Bollywood, cinema and the changes happening in the world of Indian arts and beyond. Follow him on Twitter: @RGVZoomin
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010
10-10:30 am, New York time
8:30-9 pm, Mumbai time
See local time around the world: http://timeanddate.com/s/1j41
==> Listen live, or later to a recording:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2010/01/14/films-ram-gopal-varma-bollywood-filmmaker
(you can set an e-mail reminder for yourself at that link)
Or call-in to listen and/or talk to him at +1-347-324-5991.
Send your questions/comments via e-mail to saja[at]columbia.edu
(subject = webcast) of via Twitter @sajahq. You can also use the
chatroom that will be open at the link above to ask live questions. You
can also post your questions in the comments section below.
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RECENT SAJA MOVIE WEBCASTS:
- Post-Oscar webcast about Slumdog Millionaire:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2009/02/23/Slumdog-Millionaire-Post-Oscar - Danny Boyle, director of "Slumdog Millionaire"
http://www.sajaforum.org/2009/01/webcast-danny-boyle-director-of-slumdog-millionaire.html - A.R. Rahman, music maestro
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/12/webcast-ar-rahman.html - Vikas Swarup, whose novel "Q&A" became "Slumdog Millionaire"
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/12/webcast-vikas-swarup.html - Ashok Amritraj, Hollywood producer
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/10/webcast-sajasamma-film-chat-with-ashok-amritraj-hollywood-producer.html - Manu Narayan, actor, writer, discusses "The Love Guru" and other projects
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/06/films-listen-to.html - PANEL: South Asians & Hollywood
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/02/sajaforum-chat.html
Also see Aseem Chabbra's series of nine short videos, Bollywood Briefings, http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/06/bollywood_a_vid.html
Post your comments and questions below.
