Word: bollywood
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...Inside, the pleasantly tacky decor has hardly changed in years. Trishna will be crammed with a mixture of local businessmen, Bollywood celebrities and tourists. You sit in small wooden booths that add to the sense of crowding, while waiters bring you live crabs to show the various sizes available. Dressed with butter and garlic sauce, the crab is divine and deservedly the speciality of the house. You can have it in the shell or out, depending on how much mess you want to make. I had it without and it came as an oily pile of joy on the plate...
...nationwide furor began when Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty appeared together at an AIDS-awareness function in New Delhi last Sunday. The event was supposed to highlight the risky sexual behavior of truck drivers, who have some of the highest rates of HIV infection in India. At one point in the proceedings, Gere embraced Shetty, bent her back in an exaggerated kind of dance hold and kissed her on the cheek. If it looked slightly awkward, Shetty said later, that's because it was unexpected. "Richard does not understand Hindi," she told a press conference...
What more can be said about Gandhi, the subject of dozens of hagiographies, biographies and an autobiography; a hero of both Bollywood and Hollywood; a man whose face adorns stamps and currency? Plenty, if you are Rajmohan Gandhi, journalist, scholar, grandson of the Mahatma and now author of the door-stopping, 745-page Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, his People and an Empire. The book's title and its author's pedigree promise much. A scion of the great man, one hopes, will wrest Gandhi's narrative away from cinematic hype and the Hindu extremists who claim...
...simple as a difference in attitudes towards guns. As in Western European countries, gun laws in the Indian state of Maharashta where Mumbai is located are quite strict. While it is technically possible to obtain a gun license, few are granted. Even Bollywood stars have been denied firearm licenses for protection in the past. As a result, guns in Mumbai have a negative stigma attached to them, not social cachet...
...sent a request to the Big B and SRK asking them for comment. Not having received a reply from either, I set out to take the pulse of India's movie lovers. Was there a fight? What was real and what was publicity-driven artifice? Given this is Bollywood, does it even matter...