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...sampler for Americans who've never seen a full-out Bollywood musical, since it goes heavy on the action scenes and light on the big dance numbers. The movie does include other conventions of the genre, such as the need of a young man to both rebel against his father figure and please him, and the melodramatic abasing of the protagonist; but these are familiar from Hollywood films, so they won't strike the uneducated viewer as unduly weird, just a little hackneyed. Indeed, that's the impression I got from the movie: different faces, same clich...
...plot should remind you of Kung Fu Panda, last year's excellent DreamWorks cartoon about the clumsy bear, employed in his father's noodle shop, who becomes a martial-arts expert and saves his village from a villainous tiger. Chandni Chowk is more a Kung Fu Pandit, with the oaf-hero Sidhu (Akshay Kumar), chopping away in the shop of his Dada (Mithun Chakraborty). Some visiting Chinese folks ID him as the incarnation of their nation's greatest warrior, Liu Sheng, and think Sidhu is just the fellow to rid their village of the oppressive Hojo (Gordon Liu). Accompanied...
...latest storm is the silliest yet. Dati's climb to power has hardly been easy. One of 12 children - her illiterate Algerian mother died young and her Moroccan father raised the family in a housing project on his modest earnings as a construction worker - Dati began working at 16, studying at night, and later earned economics and law degrees. As the first person of North-African descent to run a major French Ministry she has proved to be an ambitious fighter. But post-birth, she faced an unenviable decision, says Gwendoline Michaelis, editor in chief of Femme Actuelle's website...
...strongly condemn the disgraceful fact that Prince Harry used that language against my son." - Khan Abbasi, father of Ahmed Raza Khan, the fellow cadet whom Harry called a "Paki." Daily Mail...
...Prince has been dating law student Chelsy Davy since 2004. Davy, whose father owns a Zimbabean safari company, did not meet Queen Elizabeth II until 2008. British tabloids frequently publish and then later retract news of the couple's alleged break-ups, citing unsubstantiated rumors...