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Cory Wallia is Bollywood's top makeup artist and a man whose cautionary--and perhaps apocryphal--tales on whitening include the time the mother of a bride insisted he slap on so much white foundation that the young girl somehow turned blue. (The punch line? The mother approved.) He believes the real reason for the fairness craze is more troubling than most care to admit. While no one suspects that Westerners seek tans to change their ethnicity, Indians, he says, are motivated essentially to do just that. "Indians are more racist with other Indians than any American ever was with...
...star Sania Mirza and footballer Park Ji Sung) as well as entertainers (actors Ken Watanabe and Zhang Jingchu). Asians, especially South Asians, glorify sports personalities and film stars as a way of elevating their own fragile egos and showing a more affluent and successful image abroad. Bombay, despite its Bollywood stars and millionaires, remains a Third World hellhole for the unsuspecting visitor. Bollywood sells dreams, the only thing the poor can afford. Spending vast sums of money in promoting sporting events is disastrous for poor countries. Politicians in those areas heavily promote sports and entertainment to divert the attention...
...impossible that Jane Austen’s most beloved novel, “Pride and Prejudice,” could be adapted successfully after Laurence Olivier’s 1940 film version, a fantastic 1995 BBC TV mini-series starring (swoon) Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, and the recent Bollywood comedy “Bride & Prejudice” had mined so much from the material. While director Joe Wright’s version, “Pride & Prejudice,” adds little to the incomparable plot and adored characters other than an ampersand, the newest adaptation is a luxurious...
...August’s “Les Miserables.” Either would have been preferable to Columbus’ middle-of-the-road approach: “Rent”’s schizophrenic shifts between dramatic scenes and musical set pieces are better suited to Bollywood than Hollywood.Steven Chbosky’s screenplay also disappoints. He does little more than transcribe the musical’s libretto: almost all of the film’s dialogue—even that which is not sung—rhymes. This gives the movie an unfortunate Seussian feel...
...Indian films are like no other: a churning blend of epic conflict and cootchy choreography, of Sergio Leone and Vincente Minnelli ... This is the world's busiest movie industry. IN BOMBAY THEY CALL IT BOLLYWOOD, AND IT PUTS HOLLYWOOD TO SHAME: MORE THAN 700 FILMS A YEAR (ROUGHLY THREE TIMES THE NUMBER PRODUCED BY THE MAJOR HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS) in the nation's 16 official languages ... Western viewers expecting the delicate art films of Satyajit Ray will be in for a pleasant shock. Most Indian films are closer to the populist energy and intimate audience connection of Hong Kong films...