Word: indianism
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...again that Amitabh Bachchan, the godfather of Bollywood, get it right. "Cut! Cut!" yelled Farhan Akhtar, the 29-year-old veteran of one movie, before marching up to Bachchan, the 60-year-old veteran of more than 100, for an urgent discussion. The scene featured Bachchan as an Indian army colonel banging two hammers on a table off screen to simulate the jolt of an incoming Pakistani artillery round, then walking across camera to pick up a mug of tea. After two hours of adjusting camera angles, lighting and backdrop, and several more heated talks with Bachchan, Akhtar called...
...movies at a time, often on the same day, as is routine in the industry. And by shooting on location rather than on dodgy sets, by employing award-winning Hollywood cinematographer Christopher Popp, and by obliging the actors not to ham it up, Akhtar has produced the first mainstream Indian movie capable of holding its own against virtually any summer smash from Hollywood...
...vacation. Restaurants should just merge with second-mortgage companies. Besides the inevitable ?4 for bottled water, a 12.5% "discretionary" service fee is obligatorily added to the bill along with a presumptuous dotted line marked gratuity. Everyone claims the secret to London dining is to go ethnic, but our local Indian has a mysterious ?2 "papadum surcharge," and by its own admission the food is not very good. The quote on the back of the menu blares "'Decent Indian Food' - Beverly Bernstein." After eating there Ms. Bernstein couldn't even afford a colorful adjective. The insane prices bother...
...journey of the soul from death to rebirth in one of seven orders of being, ranging from the highest, bodhisattvas (those who have attained enlightenment), to hungry ghosts or, still worse, those who have been banished to hell. The sutra was one of the first attempts to syncretize the Indian Buddhist philosophy of karmic debt with the traditional Chinese belief that the dead simply went to an underground world identical to the one they had left behind. It is a fitting testament to the influence of the Silk Road that it was the carrier not only of commodities and innovations...
...Rare Indian gems earned the CARTIER DIAMOND NECKLACE once worn by the wealthy Newport socialite a record price...