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...writing and acting in plays from the age of eight. Movies, his family believed, were vacuous spectacles for nostalgic city dwellers. Adoor was planning to study drama, a more respectable art form, when he made an unpleasant discovery: to attend the school in Delhi, he had to speak fluent Hindi. He quickly lowered his standards and instead in 1962 entered India's new Film and Television Institute in Pune, believing that writing for the screen couldn't be too different than writing for the stage. But the New Wave movement was revolutionizing cinema around the globe and inspiring protean directors...
...probably never heard of Adoor Gopalakrishnan, and for a long time that was fine with him. He's an art-film director in Bollywood-besotted India, and he makes movies not in Hindi but in Malayalam, the language of his native Kerala - two strikes against widespread recognition. A temperamental auteur whose cinematic talents - and ego - are in inverse proportion to his low-key fame, Adoor's intense, demanding films have been worshiped by Indian and foreign critics and celebrated in self-consciously sophisticated Kerala, yet they've barely been released in much of India. But with the visually generous Shadow...
...Elsewhere, such fare has been gold for News Corp. In the U.S., Murdoch's Fox network owns several runaway hits including Joe Millionaire and American Idol. In India, the company's Star Plus is the leading cable channel, thanks largely to the popularity of a Hindi-language version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The success of Star Plus helped the Star Group, which is run by Murdoch's son James and reaches 53 countries, turn its first profitable quarter last year, after losing an estimated $1 billion in its previous 10 years of operation...
...From the Thorung-la it was downhill all the way and straight into a riot of civilization. Cars honked, Hindi music blared, and it was hard to distinguish where the garbage dumps ended and the streets began. Friends back home may have thought I was roughing it, but I can affirm that life on the Annapurna circuit is more than civilized...
...Foreign Film entry's "dialogue track must be predominantly in a language of the country of origin except when the story mandates that an additional non-English language be predominant." That rule was used to reject the U.K.'s original submission, Asif Kapadia's The Warrior, which is in Hindi. A Western take on a Japanese fable transplanted to India, Kapadia's directorial debut earned rave reviews and three nominations at this year's BAFTA awards. The film has a second-generation British director, a British screenwriter and British backers - yet was considered insufficiently British, since it was shot...