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...best, "Chutney Popcorn" has some of the sensuality and comic smarts of Mira Nair's 1991 movie "Mississippi Masala?" and, evoking Deepa Mehta's 1996 drama? "Fire," it offers up an intelligent look at lesbian life and the Indian community. Although "Chutney Popcorn?" in its brief 92-minute running time, deals with as many issues as a week of afternoon talk shows - lesbianism, multiculturalism, having-a-babyism - it does so not to spark a debate about those topics, but to explore them from a deeply personal standpoint. This film isn't looking to argue, it's looking to chat...
Unfortunately there were not any vendors giving away free meals, or else there would have been more people like Sid Shenai '04, who said he "ate enough chicken masala to feed the entire freshman class...
...DELHI, India--Every night I go to sleep wearing Delhi. Try as I may to disrobe, to wash the city from my skin, I remain clothed in the urban masala of textures and smells that seasons the ancient metropolis on the banks of the Yamuna River. A drop of sweat lies delicately between my eyes, a saree of dirt and exhaust, pleated six times at my waist and draped over my shoulder, enshrouds my body and defends my modesty from the menacing eyes of the dark. And as I lay in bed, immobilized by the heat, with the dissonant smells...
...small town brothers who lucked out to become two of the biggest incidental music composers to jam sitars in Bollywood, India, the largest commercial film industry in the world. During Bollywood's Golden Age in the 50s and 60s, the traditional Indian family drama gave way to the Masala (mixed spice) film, a particulars brand of brownsploitation filled, as the liner notes entice, "with Kung-fu, gunfights, car chases, loose women, badass hoods in smoke-filled opium dens and of course the good guys." This collection of never-been-released music from the original motion pictures, unearthed from a Bollywood...
...Mississippi Masala...