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When British musicals king Andrew Lloyd Webber and the great Bollywood film composer A.R. Rahman announced their plans for a stage musical two years ago, the Indian media went wild. Lloyd Webber had been captivated by Rahman's music, so he traveled to Bombay to meet the Asian master. If Rahman had been female and Lloyd Webber Indian and single, it could have been the perfect Bollywood film plot. A deal was struck, and Bombay Dreams, composed by Rahman and produced by Lloyd Webber and his Really Useful Group at a reported cost of $7 million, will open at London...
...household name to Westerners, but he is every bit as much a musical monarch as Lloyd Webber is, having sold well over 100 million CDs. A little perspective, folks: that's about the same as Madonna and Britney Spears combined. And he comes to a London seemingly besotted with Bollywood. In May Selfridges department store had a $1.69 million tribute to the genre, complete with visiting stars, movie-set replicas and Bollywood-inspired clothing. The British Film Institute meanwhile is running Imagine Asia, at eight months' duration England's largest Bollywood film festival ever. "Hindi cinema is incredibly popular here...
...RITU BERI Bollywood Fashion Star...
With a largely improvised script, minimal lighting and experimental cinematography, A Perfect Day ignored the typical characteristics of India’s commercial movie industry, known as Bollywood...
...What I wanted to do?become a military officer?that dream I had, that was crushed from the beginning. Now what dream should I see, what wish should I have for the future?" Shakeel asked me, plaintively. Then he reverted to the language of his beloved Bollywood. "The way life goes, the 'The End', only Allah knows...