Word: bollywood
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...washcloths reenacted a village scene about a shut-off water supply. The enthusiasm and energy of pieces like the Tamil dance characterized the show. This enthusiasm was most visible in the impressive and hugely enjoyable all-senior self-commemorative dance which led into intermission, a fast-paced medley of Bollywood-style songs danced with infectious energy by over 80 members of the senior class. The musical elements of the show were equally fun-loving and energetic. During a Pakistani rock song near the end of the show, dancers crossed the stage behind a light curtain in the back...
...most colorful recent sign of detente was Pakistan's decision to partly lift its ban on Indian films. Officially, Bollywood movies have been banned in Pakistan since the 1965 war between the two countries. But Indian stars and big-budget dance numbers have a huge following in Pakistan, and are now widely available via black-market DVDs. Indian films shot in third-party countries have been allowed in Pakistan for the past four years, and now a Pakistani Senate Committee says it will allow in 12 Indian films a year as long as Pakistani films are shown in India...
...auction in a luxury Mumbai hotel on Feb. 20, the IPL's eight city-based franchises each spent up to $5 million to buy the services of 76 of the world's best players. To buy the franchises themselves, an assortment of businessmen and Bollywood actors had earlier forked out a total of $700 million. "The IPL has the backing of some of the heaviest hitters in India, if not the world," says Gus Seebeck, sport-marketing manager for Australia's Network Ten, which paid more than $10 million to secure the local TV rights for the IPL from Sony...
...franchises, whose co-owners include Lachlan Murdoch and Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, will compete in the newly-conceived Indian Premier League, which is ostensibly owned by Indian cricket's governing body. Sony Television has paid around $1 billion for the exclusive rights to televise 10 years of IPL tournaments, the first of which starts April 18 and goes for six weeks. While it's probably advisable at least to try not to sound like a self-righteous fuddy-duddy when examining this enterprise, it's all but impossible for anyone with the faintest appreciation of cricket's traditions...
...still as cool and confident as ever. “In Nollywood, we don’t count the walls,” he says. “We’ve learned to climb them.” Truer words were seldom spoken. Directors in Hollywood and Bollywood, currently the first and second largest film industries in the world, hardly have to worry whether an ambulance will get stuck in the dirt and stall during their final day of shooting. But like the title of Franco Sacchi’s and Robert Caputo’s new documentary says...