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...London seemingly besotted with Bollywood. In May Selfridges department store had a $1.69 million tribute to the genre, complete with visiting stars, movie-set replicas and Bollywood-inspired clothing. The British Film Institute meanwhile is running Imagine Asia, at eight months' duration England's largest Bollywood film festival ever. "Hindi cinema is incredibly popular here at the moment," says Cary Sawhney, the festival's director. "Since 1998 Hindi films have been regularly breaking into the British Top 10 - helped by the increasing frequency of English subtitles. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham [Sometimes Happy, Sometimes...
...diverse display of campus musical talent, a group of about 20 undergraduates brought jazz, heavy metal, hip-hop, rock and traditional Hindi drumming to Lowell Lecture Hall Friday night in a show devised by two student musicians...
After the classical piece, they were joined by the jazz musicians as well as Mallika L. Mundkur ’04 and Amol K. Tripathi ’03, both members of the campus musical group Tarana, who played Hindi drums called tablas...
...began to enjoy a stature it had not possessed before the riots. Muslim street toughs and hoodlums became newly respectable, as defenders of the community and their faith. After the blasts, many of the plotters went "upstairs." I met some of them in Dubai; they spend their days watching Hindi movies, their nights on mobile phones plotting murder and extortion across the Arabian Sea. They speak with enormous nostalgia about Bombay, and with hatred about their new neighbors?the Arabs do not treat South Asians well, and the Pakistanis are suspicious of their new guests. They've left family...
...describe Monsoon Wedding as a film about culture clash and the effects of westernization on traditional Indian culture would be selling it short. Certainly, there are elements of cultural tension: Even as the family prepares to celebrate an arranged marriage, they speak in a jumble of Hindi and English (the young men tell everyone to “chill” in English, while grandmothers speak only Hindi) and the girls read Cosmopolitan, while the boys watch MTV. In any case, Nair’s message on globalization is unclear, for while she evidently reveres traditional culture through her attention...