Like the character he plays, actor Kal Penn modified his name from Kalpen Modi, when his agents suggested he anglicize it to get more auditions in Hollywood. In the end credits, he is listed twice: Gogol -- Kal Penn and Nikhil -- Kalpen Modi.
Databases are getting faster every day. But they’re still a significant bottleneck for many Web applications or Web sites. Why? Mechanical hard drives, impeded by the laws of physics, bog down the relational databases that read and write to them.
Terracotta Inc.’s namesake software is an open-source Java clustering solution.
According to CEO Amit Pandey, the [...]
Despite a few exceptions, Tabu is known best for her willingness to play characters in artistic, low-budget films that go on to garner more critical appreciation than they do substantial box office figures such as in Maqbool (2003), Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities (2004) or The Namesake (2007). Known to be selective on her film roles the actress has said, "I do films which move me and most of all, the unit and the director should appeal to me."
The Namesake is a 2007 film which received a limited release in the United States on March 9, 2007. It has been screened at film festivals in Toronto and New York.It is directed by Mira Nair and is based upon the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri who appeared in the movie. Sooni Taraporevala adapted the novel to a screenplay.
Poor the Apple. No sooner has the Cupertino conquistador de computadoras taken steps to protect its trademark against GreeNYC than another eponymous company pops up. This one's in Korea and it sells toilets and bidets which do all those flash things so beloved of Asian poopers. Did I really just write that? Oh dear, yes I did. Anyway, I'm looking forward to Jobs' riposte. Will he bring out something for the bathroom that includes shower function, heat seat, self cleaning and user memory? If I were him, I'd just send in the lawyers. [AppleZen via i4u]
March 12, 1971. It's a day that holds great historical meaning to this site. For on that day, Raúl Ramón Mondesí Avelino came into the world. Our lives would never be the same.As you've probably noticed, this site, which was started in 2006, is named in honor of the former Pirate outfielder. But it's not for his 99 at-bats or his .283 average in 26 games as a Bucco. It's for the sole reason of telling future generations about Mondesi's incredibly awesome scheme to get out of his Pirates contract just a month after he signed it.I originally gave Raul this bio in an early post, Pittsburgh Pirates: The Last Stop , from June 26, 2006:Signed as a free agent in 2004, appeared in 26 games before the infamous Mario Guerrero extortion threats started. These threats distracted Mondesi so much tha
Charles Albert "Chuck'' Comiskey II, grandson and namesake of the Chicago White Sox founder and a former front-office executive and co-owner during the "Go Go Sox'' years in the 1950s, has died. He was 81.
Comiskey died in his sleep Sunday at his home in this western Chicago suburb, according to the Gibbons Elliston Funeral Home, citing a statement from his family. Further details on his death
Mira Nair’s next directorial project “The Namesake” that is based of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel with the same name will have its world wide release in March, 07. Tabu, Irfan Khan and Kal Penn form the main star cast. But would you trust me if I say that for Mira, Tabu wasn’t the first choice to play the Kolkota-born Ashima in the novel. Mira had first approached Rani Mukherjee for the role of Ashima and had asked Abhishek Bachchan to play her son’s role. But because Abhishek was told that he will have to do a semi-nude scene and some kisses, he retracted from the project and Rani followed the suit (for reasons unknown). Well…I don’t think Abhishek has a clean record of no on-screen kisses! But he better follow the rule he has set for his would-be wife Ash. And for Rani…I am amazed that she dropped such a good project. But then to think of it Mira wouldn’t have got a fine actress as Tabu to play the role of Ashima.
Jhumpa Lahiri's 'The Namesake' is a story of Indian immigrants in the United States the effect the immigration has on their offsprings. There is a feeling of alienation, a feeling of being lonely in the crowd all through the novel. Only once does Ashima Ganguli, Gogol mother, feel attached to America because of the memories of her husband after his death. She doesn't want that the house should be altered after it is sold to someone else. Her husband had made his living in this country.The situation of Gogol is no better. He is a child who is born to Indian parents but is brought up in America. He is neither able to become an American at heart nor remains an Indian. He does not fully belong to anywhere. He is a 'nowhere man'.He tries to break away from the Indian traditions followed by his family. Once he had resented the trips made of Calcutta but finally he comes to wonder 'how his parents had done it ...All those trips...how could they have been enough?' This was the realiza
Jhumpa Lahiri's 'The Namesake' is a story of Indian immigrants in the United States the effect the immigration has on their offsprings. There is a feeling of alienation, a feeling of being lonely in the crowd all through the novel. Only once does Ashima Ganguli, Gogol mother, feel attached to America because of the memories of her husband after his death. She doesn't want that the house should be altered after it is sold to someone else. Her husband had made his living in this country.The situation of Gogol is no better. He is a child who is born to Indian parents but is brought up in America. He is neither able to become an American at heart nor remains an Indian. He does not fully belong to anywhere. He is a 'nowhere man'.He tries to break away from the Indian traditions followed by his family. Once he had resented the trips made of Calcutta but finally he comes to wonder 'how his parents had done it ...All those trips...how could they have been enough?' This was the realiza
Jhumpa Lahiri, the celebrated author of 'The Interpretor of Maladies'(a collection of short stories) also penned down the Pulitzer Prize winner 'The Namesake'. The theme of cultural alienation dominates the whole novel. But what I am going to discuss here is the psychological insights provided into the working of a child's mind by the author. When Gogol, the main character of the novel, is young he responds only to that name. Even in school he refuses to accept 'Nikhil' as his school name. He doesn't respond when he's called Nikhil. It is but natural for a child to do so. Nikhil is not known to him. He only knows Gogol.But he grows conscious about his name later on till a time comes when he finally declares he hates the name 'Gogol' and formally changes it to 'Nikhil'. But for the whole of his life he is unable to detach himself from his former name. The name 'Gogol' keeps propping up at different times.Again after his father's death he feels guilty about the change in
Jhumpa Lahiri, the celebrated author of 'The Interpretor of Maladies'(a collection of short stories) also penned down the Pulitzer Prize winner 'The Namesake'. The theme of cultural alienation dominates the whole novel. But what I am going to discuss here is the psychological insights provided into the working of a child's mind by the author. When Gogol, the main character of the novel, is young he responds only to that name. Even in school he refuses to accept 'Nikhil' as his school name. He doesn't respond when he's called Nikhil. It is but natural for a child to do so. Nikhil is not known to him. He only knows Gogol.But he grows conscious about his name later on till a time comes when he finally declares he hates the name 'Gogol' and formally changes it to 'Nikhil'. But for the whole of his life he is unable to detach himself from his former name. The name 'Gogol' keeps propping up at different times.Again after his father's death he feels guilty about the change in
These are some caps of Love making scene of Tabu and Irfan Khan from movie Namesake...I was initially shocked to see Tabu in such kind of video but then i realiese dat its must if u want to stay in Bollywood..Below is the video link for the same.
Video : Tabu and Irfan Khan : Love Making Scene from Namesake
Film: “The Namesake”
Cast: Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Kal Penn, Jacinda Barrett
Director: Mira Nair
Rating: ****
Sometimes an absence is also a kind of presence. Take “The Namesake”. Irrfan Khan as Professor Ashok Ganguly suddenly dies, leaving what looks like stretches of aching silences in bereft Ashima’s (Tabu) life.
And yet, look at life’s ironies - the death of the patriarch in this Bengali family in New York triggers off a stretch of mending and nurturing that culminates in a kind of healing that signifies a beginning born out of an end.
Mira Nair’s new film is so tender at heart you often forget these are actors enacting scenes from a well-known Pulitzer-prize winning novel.
The actors lose their plumes so completely that we don’t even get the chance to be astonished by the subtle craft that underlines almost every moment in this mellow migratory drama.
The cross-generational conflict between a first-generation Bengali family in the US a
After Monsoon Wedding and Vanity Fair, Mira Nair is ready to present The Namesake, a film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri. The goodness of The Namesake lies in the sterling performances by Tabu and Irrfan Khan. So, guy watch the trailer first and the film later...
Discounting the possibility of dubbing her much-awaited film “The Namesake” into Hindi, Mira Nair says she is not considering it because it won’t work.
“It’s half in Bengali and half in American English. I don’t want to flatten it all out into one language. In the case of ‘Monsoon Wedding’, which we dubbed into Hindi, the [...]
Exclusive screenings of “Water”, “Provoked” and “The Namesake” will be part of the Tongues on Fire film festival here next week.
The annual event, celebrating the excellence, performance and achievements of Asian women in cinema, opens on March 9 with Mira Nair’s “The Namesake”. The film, based on a book written by American writer Jhumpa Lahiri, [...]
Indian American director Mira Nair’s latest venture ‘The Namesake,’ is emerging as one of the best reviewed Indian films ever in the US market going by a string of positive reviews in the mainline media.
An adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s popular novel, the film was released Friday in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto [...]
Just last week, headlines in Indian newspapers screamed: American media goes gaga over ‘The Namesake’. The readers were told that Mira Nair’s latest venture ‘is emerging as one of the best reviewed Indian films ever in the US market’.
That’s all very true. But it didn’t help the film much at the box-office during its opening [...]
