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...Nevertheless, Western studios' ongoing efforts to make successful Indian films in Bollywood have yet to bear fruit. Sony's $9 million love story Saawariya fell off the radar after a short run in late 2007. Last January, analysts dismissed Warner's $9 million kung-fu comedy Chandni Chowk to China as Bollywood's most expensive flop ever, and the 2008 Disney animation flick Roadside Romeo, co-produced with a major Indian studio, only mustered a three-week run. Despite their high production values, all three films were short on content, say analysts...
Mind you, the early part of the year is always a dumping ground for crappy movies. In January 2009 we had My Bloody Valentine, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Chandni Chowk to China and the implausibly popular Taken. Later this month we'll be treated to the spectacles of Jackie Chan as a babysitter in The Spy Next Door and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a brutal hockey player who's forced to become The Tooth Fairy. But in February there's the new Martin Scorsese, plus a fine French thriller A Prophet and the sequel to the parkour classic...
Abid Baig is a salesman in a dried-fruits shop in Lal Chowk, the central shopping district of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir's capital. But Baig's real calling is as a stone thrower. A familiar figure at protests for azadi, or freedom, that regularly clog Srinagar's streets, 21-year-old Baig is angry, blaming the pervasive Indian security presence for choking off his chance at a decent life. His parents pulled him out of school when he was just in 10th grade because they worried that their only child would be picked up by police trolling for militants. Baig...
...suspected LeT militants, but others are assumed to have entered successfully. By late summer, violent attacks returned to the heart of Srinagar after a respite of nearly three years. On Aug. 1, two men from the Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) were shot, point blank, in the busy Regal Chowk area. On Aug. 31, two more CRPF men were shot in Lal Chowk in an almost identical attack, this time coordinated with a grenade tossed at the Srinagar police chief's office nearby. September witnessed a further escalation. A Sept. 12 car bomb killed four policemen outside the Srinagar Central...
...Read TIME's Chandni Chowk to China Review: Bollywood Goes East