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...Driver Hari Singh pulled his crowded vehicle out of the Punjab capital of Chandigarh shortly after nightfall for what was to have been a routine trip to Rishikesh, a Hindu pilgrim center in Uttar Pradesh. But half an hour into the journey, a white Fiat suddenly stopped in front of the bus, forming a blockade. Five armed men, four of them turbaned in the manner of Sikhs, burst out of the car, threw Singh off the bus and commandeered his vehicle. After driving the bus to a nearby field, the gunmen opened fire, instantly killing 38 men, women and children...
...Hari Singh...
...changed his mind about becoming an informant. Asked why the FBI had not followed up on the first two letters, U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello in San Francisco explained: "Not knowing who you're dealing with, whether it's Jack the Ripper or the greatest master spy since Mata Hari, an offer on the blind to do business is not the way we do business...
...jailbreak masterminded by the young matriarch who had fallen in love with one of the convicts--but the tone is pure High Hollywood elegiac. This is revolution as amour fou, which Diane Keaton knows something about from her turns as Louise Bryant in Reds and the frazzled Mata Hari in The Little Drummer Girl. Keaton and Australian Director Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career) might seem to make a good protofeminist match, but the results are dour and disappointing. The film's strongest suit--Russell Boyd's sepulchrally seductive cinematography--ironicall y seals its doom. Mrs. Soffel (rhymes with woeful...
...series' domain is the subcontinental divide that separates those worlds. The action begins with an awkward mating dance between a shy English expatriate, Daphne Manners (Susan Wooldridge), and a tall, dark, handsome Indian, Hari Kumar (Art Malik). Straightforward enough, so it seems. But "in India," as one character points out, "nothing is self-evident." The exceedingly British Manners lives with an Indian lady she calls Auntie, and longs to make herself at home in India; the Indian-seeming Kumar has just emerged from a previous incarnation at an exclusive English boarding school, and finds himself an alien...