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This follows several trips to Asia by top cardinals, and Benedict's choice last year to name then Archbishop of Mumbai (formerly Bombay ) Ivan Cardinal Dias as head of the powerful Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which oversees all Catholic missions around the world...
When I was growing up in Bombay [now Mumbai], of course crime existed, but you mostly saw and heard about it in the movies. If you were middle class or upper class, then it happened elsewhere. Suddenly it wasn't like that at all. Every morning, you opened the paper, there was "five dead in encounter" here and "so-and-so businessman shot by extortionists" there. In many ways, it started to come very close to home. Geographically, I was within earshot of one famous shootout in the early '90s, which happened in my neighborhood with automatic weapons. Also...
...pages later, everything is explained, and you're done. But as soon as I started pressing at the subject a little, the connections were just so many, and they just sprang up. What I mean by that is the sort of obvious connections between organized crime and politics in Bombay and in the country at large...
...ritzy premiere such as this would typically take place in Mumbai (Bombay) or in Ratnam's home town Chennai (Madras). But Bollywood films have eyes to be as popular in America as in India, Indonesia, the Middle East and North Africa, where they dominate cinematic culture. So the principals of Guru had come 7,800 miles to the Empire 25 theater just off Times Square in New York City to flack their film this weekend. (They'd been in Toronto the evening before.) Then Abhishek and Ash flew back to India, where, in a flourish that Brad and Angelina might...
...hermetically sealed fantasy world that most Indian films inhabit, Ratnam's movies often flirt with incendiary political issues: a terrorist kidnapping in Roja; the 1992-93 Hindi-Muslim riots in Bombay; the rivalry of Tamil actor-statesman M.G. Ramachandran (known as MGR) and screenwriter-statesman M. Karunanidhi (MK) in Iruvar; more terrorism in Del Se; the Sri Lankan war in Kannathil Muthamittal. He is also fascinated with powerful figures in the Mumbai Mafia. Nayakan attached the structure of The Godfather to the career of gang lord Varadarajan Mudaliar, and Ratnam revisited the underworld in Agni Nakshatram and Thalapathi...