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What humanizes the characters is Chowdhury's reimagining of the Lohias' beginnings as Marwari traders. Once little more than personal bankers to the nobles of Rajputana, the Lohias are constantly reminded of their mere mercantile status and escape that humiliation by migrating all over India to seek their fortunes.
I listened to moore do interviews during the U.S. election in 2008. It did not escape my attention then that he was a very passionate man, vociferous about the causes he espoused, though many times he appeared to be rambling, unrealistic and perhaps a touch fanatical in his views. But...
In his list of influences on Pixar's new film Up, from Dumbo to The Wizard of Oz, Richard Corliss overlooks another, earlier source of inspiration [May 18]. This is animation pioneer Winsor McCay's 1921 short film, in his Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend series, called The Flying House...
So TV programmers, trying to read viewers' minds, are facing the same questions politicians are: Do Americans want to confront their problems or escape them? Is the change in the U.S. strictly an economic and temporary one, or is there a deeper, lasting transformation in the country's outlook and...
As Docter notes, Up is driven by the idea of escape - the notion, familiar to dreamers of any age, that "you could just float away and take what you want with you." What Carl wants to take is the house where he spent a happy half-century with Ellie and...