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...lower-level people, the foot soldiers, especially the ones who were the shooters, were much more wary and difficult to get hold of because they're afraid of being caught by the police and being "encountered," as the Indian slang has it. The newspapers will report the next day that so-and-so gangster was killed in an encounter with the police. What that actually means is that they caught the guy, and they'd question him, and they would kill him, and they'd put a gun in his hand and say it was a shootout. So in India...
...which critics like me have actually seen. I'm sorry that Pedro Almodovar didn't make the finals with Volver, but it's not as if he needs another Oscar. Deepa Mehta certainly deserves some kind of award for Water, which she made despite sabotage and death threats from Indian fundamentalists. And I'm pleased that The Lives of Others was cited: partly because it's a smartly pensive spy thriller, partly because this means that some Generation Why cutie will have to stand on the Kodak Theatre stage and try to enunciate the director's name: Florian Henckel...
...GRANGE PARK OPERA Near Winchester in Hampshire, the theater is a converted orangery, the mansion itself houses the restaurant. Fields and woods make the perfect backdrop for a picnic - eat in the big tent or a private Indian pavilion (but make note: if you bring more than one servant, you must book a separate pavilion for them). At season's end, some productions move briefly to Nevill Holt in Leicestershire, a medieval house with a theater in the old stables. Rare treats this season are Michel Legrand's 1964 marriage-of-convenience saga Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Sergei Prokofiev...
...South Asian story: boy meets girl just before the wedding. Boy marries girl whether she wants to or not. Girl loses her identity, her sanity and, sometimes, her life. At age 15, Jasvinder Sanghera was hurtling toward just such a fate. Born of Indian immigrants in the gritty English East Midlands city of Derby, she was about to be wed to a man she had never seen in a place, Punjab, she had never been...
ENGAGED. India's wildly popular screen couple, Aishwarya Rai, 33, a former Miss World, and Abhishek Bachchan, 31, hunky son of film legend Amitabh Bachchan; in a private ceremony; in Mumbai. The Bollywood hotties, whose relationship had fueled gossip in Indian papers for months, have appeared together in several films, most recently the rags-to-riches tale Guru, which premiered in New York City...