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...child growing up in Pennington, N.J., Fareha Ahmed watched Bollywood videos and enthusiastically attended the annual Pakistan Independence Day Parade in New York City. By middle school, though, her parents' Pakistani culture had become uncool. "I wanted to fit in so bad," Ahmed says. For her, that meant trying to be white. She dyed her hair blond, got hazel contact lenses and complained, "I'm going to smell," when her mom served fragrant dishes like lamb biryani for dinner. But at Villanova University in Philadelphia, Ahmed found friends from all different backgrounds who welcomed diversity and helped her, she says...
...OLIVE BAR AND KITCHEN In the Bollywood neighborhood of Bandra, Olive, tel: (91-22) 2600 8248, is a hangout for film and cricket stars. Chef Rodney Cabran turns out simple but elegant Mediterranean standards (including pizza with the thinnest crust for thousands of miles), while a low-lit terrace offers an almost Balearic respite from the hustle of Bombay...
...Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder levels. The busy downstairs bar serves the excellent but hard-to-find Dindori red from the Sula vineyards outside Bombay. The menu at the restaurant upstairs features grilled cinnamon quail and refreshingly rare peppered tuna. OLIVE BAR AND KITCHEN In the Bollywood neighborhood of Bandra, Olive, tel: (91-22) 2600 8248, is a hangout for film and cricket stars. Chef Rodney Cabran turns out simple but elegant Mediterranean standards (including pizza with the thinnest crust for thousands of miles), while a low-lit terrace offers an almost Balearic respite from the hustle...
...growing tension among the cast in Shanghai and lengthy flashbacks to Sun and Lin's love affair in Beijing. The songs have a sense of the subcontinent, courtesy of top Indian choreographer Farah Khan, who taught the Chinese cast how to use their hips and added a few Bollywood dancers to round out the action. Two of Asia's best cinematographers?Peter Pau and Christopher Doyle?split time behind the camera, and each creates distinct visuals. Pau shoots the baroque hotels and classic Bund streets of Shanghai with a warm and romantic eye, all burnished greens, blues and browns. Doyle...
...Color Purple does bring significant numbers of blacks to Broadway, that'd be great. I had a similar hope for the Desi Indian audience when the A.R. Rahman Bollywood musical Bombay Dreams opened at the same theater early last year. Eight money-draining months later, it closed. Mind you, Bombay Dreams didn't have The Color Purple's $10 million advance, which should be enough to let this adaptation of the Alice Walker novel ride out the mostly mixed reviews it received today. Critics wanted to be respectful yet say that this mixture of melodrama and pop music was just...