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...serious TIFFist is a movie Magellan too, searching for quality films from undiscovered countries. Hong Kong's vibrant action movies of the late '80s quickly captured a cult audience in Toronto, and the delirious melodramas from Bollywood announced themselves with the festival's 1994 tribute to India's director Mani Ratnam. This year, Handling is excited by the richness of Israeli films - "There's a kind of explosion of creativity there, and it's about time" - while Cowan finds a consolidation of merit from other nations. "The rich are getting richer," he says. "The Korean and Argentine cinemas continue...
...there's a commitment to a specific cinema from the city and its audiences, we try to address it," says Cowan. "There's been a huge rise in interest for East Asian films - not just China but Korea, Japan, Thailand." The festival is also expanding its coverage of Bollywood directors. "In the last five years," he notes, "they've been seeking a wider international audience, so they've been toning down their more risible cultural specificities." (Translation: fewer wet-sari production numbers.) This year Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear will play in Toronto, with all-time megastar Amitabh Bachchan...
...seemed like a perfect union of literary acclaim and Bollywood glitz. He: a Booker Prize-winning author and one of India's most acclaimed literary exports. She: a gorgeous model-turned-actress turned cooking-show host. Little wonder then that this week's announcement that Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi are splitting after just three years of marriage is front page news across India, the country of their births if not their main residence...
...While globalization may have brought a new openness in talking about love and sex in India, such subjects still regularly spark controversy, especially when politicians get involved. In April, Hollywood actor Richard Gere outraged India's prudes by kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness rally. A month earlier, six states including Madhya Pradesh banned sex education in schools, after authorities said that pictures showing changes that occur during puberty were too graphic. And in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), some schools have recently banned public displays of affection between students...
...News," "Groups," "Blogs" and "Images," which appear in tabs. The familiar text-based results are still there, below the new tabs. The revamped search code's new video tab, for example, offers clips of the band's performances, plus a silly YouTube parody entitled "Indian Beatles: some kinda weird bollywood beatles clones...