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...with a total of 17 brands, from Parker Pens to Pepsi, making his white goatee and neat brown hair common on billboards and TV screens from Jakarta to Johannesburg. And in August, he returned to host a second series of the blockbuster television game show Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? "He's a mythic figure," says Bend it Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. Bachchan's friend, Reliance billionaire Anil Ambani, calls him "the biggest star India has ever known...
Only five years ago, it looked like it was all over for the King of Bollywood. After ruling Indian cinema as its undisputed superstar for a quarter century, Amitabh Bachchan began to bomb. A succession of films bled money. Endorsements dried up. Even his company's 1996 production of the Miss World beauty pageant was plagued by protests from both Indian conservatives and feminists. By the turn of the millennium, Bachchan found himself $20 million in debt and staring obscurity in the face. "The industry thought he was finished," says Ram Gopal Varma, director of Bachchan's latest hit, Sarkar...
...Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The island of Mauritius is a tropical paradise: a sugarcane-and-coconut-palm-covered volcanic dot in the Indian Ocean. It's fast becoming a shopper's paradise, too. Mauritius has produced textiles for more than three decades, supplying Europe and the U.S. with designer clothing. But over the past few years many of these same garments have become available for purchase on the island itself. Clothing shops freckle...
...week's end, no progress was made in expanding the Security Council but, according to a TIME/CNN poll conducted in four major Indian metropolises by market-research company TNS, Indians agree that their nation will deserve more respect in the future. Three quarters of the respondents asserted that India would develop into a superpower within the next quarter-century. More than 40% of those polled said they thought Bombay?already home to the world's most prolific film industry?would one day eclipse Hollywood as the global entertainment capital. The poll also suggests that Singh should concentrate on the domestic...
...Master of Malgudi Thank you for "the fountainhead" [Aug. 15-22], about novelist R.K. Narayan, who vividly brought to life the make-believe South Indian town of Malgudi through detailed descriptions of every street, alley, shop and office. [The fictional town is the setting for almost all of Narayan's stories.] One of India's most subtly humorous writers, Narayan delighted in exploring the lives of ordinary Indians of all ages. A literary great, he is still alive in the hearts of many people around the world! Suresh Kumar Parappurath Bangalore, India...