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...Friday night, and the big theater was jammed with Indian fans awaiting the premiere of the new year's big movie. Bollywood princess Aishwarya Rai was greeted with a bouquet of roses from a city official and audience cries of "We love you, Ash!" Abhishek Bachchan, a rising actor and son of Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan, enters to girlish squeals not heard since Hrithik Roshan last went topless in public. Mani Ratnam, who is internationally the most revered writer-director of Indian films, said a few words. Composer A R Rahman, whose hundred or so film scores have made...
...maxim, "Only when you dream it can you do it," not to mention The Rocky Horror Show's "Don't dream it, be it.") We flash back to Gurukant's youth in a Gujurat village, then follow the mogul's progress, with some Bollywood embellishments: his marriage to Sujatha (Rai) - at first for her $25,000 dowry, then for love - and his fraternal devotion to a feisty crippled girl, Meenu (Vidya Balan), who will grow up to marry Shyam (Madhavan), the very muckraking reporter who's determined to bring Gurukant down...
...week, we had a party in New York where the Eagles performed to celebrate Wal-Mart's commitment to environmental sustainability, then we opened Bobby with a star-studded premiere in Hollywood. We've taken periodic odysseys across America and internationally to build partnerships with RAI Television in Italy and TF1 in France and ARD in Germany. We're laying down an infrastructure...
Though sponsored by women’s groups, the trip is open to men as well. Neel K. Rai ’08 said he was not deterred from going on the trip by the gender focus of the sponsors. “Warren Buffett is one of the greatest business leaders ever, so whatever he talks about will probably be relevant,” Rai said...
...launched a broadside against the opposition leaders standing next to him, criticizing their inability to contend with Berlusconi. A political movement built up around the director that circumvented the major opposition parties. Rallies sprang up in the form of giant human chains, one encircling the Rome headquarters of rai state television to protest Berlusconi's conflicts of interest as owner of half the country's TV channels - no wonder it was nicknamed the Ring-Around-the-Rosy campaign. A year later, Moretti quietly ceased his public political activities and began Il Caimano. His challenge was to sharpen a story that...