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...Oscars, insisted that despite the awards for composer A.R. Rahman, sound mixer Resul Pookutty and lyricist Gulzar, the film is still a "Western" film, made by a British director and financed by a British producer. "It's a non-Indian film which happened to have an all-Indian cast," he wrote. This is missing the point. Danny Boyle could not have made the film that he did without this cast and crew, and to pretend otherwise is to belittle their contribution. These Oscars ought to be seen as a validation of everyone who made Slumdog possible, particularly Rahman, who might...
...folks in Mumbai also realize that the first "Bollywood" production to make a major impact at the Academy was written, produced and directed by Englishmen - subjects of the old Raj. In the 1980s, Gandhi, another film about Indians and made by colonialists, took Best Picture. This time the entire cast was Indian or of Indian heritage; none of them had made an English-language feature film before; and three of the Oscar-winners were Indian: superstar composer A.R. Rahman, the renowned lyricist Gulzar and one of the sound mixers, Resul Pookutty. Rahman remembered his roots by hailing "all the people...
...Delhi-based film critic Vinayak Chakraborty, "This officially recognizes the power of the songs and dances of Bollywood cinema. It is debatable whether Slumdog is Rahman's best work, but it does give cognizance to Indian talent." In addition to Rahman and Pookutty, many of the film's cast are already celebrated, respected names in Indian cinema. Gulzar, who won the Oscar for best original song along with Rahman for Jai Ho, is a venerated writer, poet and lyricist; actors Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan are among the best in the trade. "I'm super-happy for Rasool [Pookutty...
...intrigued by the fact that she is an alumnus of Cornell. Had this Ivy Leaguer gone bad or just totally nuts? I decided to talk to Carla Gallo herself and put the whole story together.Her acting career began almost simultaneously with her undergraduate career when she was cast in David O. Russell’s first acclaimed film, “Spanking the Monkey,” during the summer between her performing arts high school graduation and her first semester at Cornell. When it seemed likely that filming would conflict with her freshman fall, Gallo’s mother...
...Renzi's rise comes at a difficult time for the Democratic Party, the main center-left opposition to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition government. At the national level, the party is in utter disarray, mired in petty battles of personalities and unable to cast aside the remnants of bygone labels and ideologies. This week, Democratic party chief Walter Veltroni resigned after the party's sitting member in Sardinia was walloped in regional elections by Berlusconi's hand-picked candidate. After Veltroni's resignation, Berlusconi quipped that he is "getting used to not having an opposition...