Indiatimes Broadband, a service of The Times of India, reports that Jennifer Aniston will soon be acting in “Silence”, a remake of the 1969 Bollywood classic “Khamoshi”. Jennifer is to play the role of Waheeda Rehman and two A-grade Hollywood actors will play the roles of Rajesh Khanna and Dharmendra.Khamoshi was a serious film that…
Nikhat Kazmi, Bollywood reviewer for Times of India, world’s largest circulation English language newspaper, vs. Rachel Saltz, Bollywood reviewer for New York Times, world’s most famous English language newspaper. Rachel gets the “Ras” or “heart” of this film whereas Nikhat does not. Nikhat called Jhoom Barabar Jhoom a “no-brainer”. He is right in this respect. The…
Erin Burnett could have done this story in her India Special on CNBC. Well, coulda, woulda, shoulda as a young, perky colleague used to say! At least, now Ms. Burnett can read it here.Before doing her excellent One Hour Special on India, Erin Burnett had done a similar special on Dubai. But like most European-American reporters, she made no…
During the “Sacred Cow” conversation on CNBC, Erin Burnett told Mark Haines that she was so busy working on her special that she did not have time to eat a full meal and that she had to subsist on Power Bars. Mark Haines, who seems to have the same aversion to Power Bars that I do, offered…
The most popular article on this blog is “Erin Burnett’s One Hour Special on India” with a 16.5% hit rating. The second most popular article (with a hit rating of 12.1%) is our critical piece “Flagrant Foul on Mark Haines and Erin Burnett – Their conversation about India’s regard for “Sacred Cows”. We are happy to…
We are expanding the focus of this blog to include articles on Global Issues and their coverage by Media. This does not dilute our focus on Bollywood but enhances the coverage. This decision is based on your feedback and the statistics of article views. As you have seen with the Myanmar coverage, there are few…
(Left – View from Manhattan; Right – View from Pier I, Brooklyn) “The Brooklyn Bridge remains an original – like most NYC residents” says NYC Tourist.com. They are right.New York City celebrated the 125th anniversary of this NYC landmark on May 22, 2008. All NYC television channels ran stories. But none of them could play a video or a song…
The incredibly talented Wil Smith plays Alex “Hitch” Hitchens, a “date-doctor’; a sentimental advisor who teaches men how to date the women of their dreams. He gets a new client, a nerdy financial consultant Albert (played by Kevin James of the King of Queens fame) The story revolves around Hitch helping Albert to date the wealthy and…
Sharon Stone made a terribly stupid and deeply offensive remark about the “Earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China” being in some way “karma” because of Chinese actions in Tibet. To their credit, the Chinese Government and the Chinese people reacted with anger and protests. Christian Dior acted promptly to pull ads featuring Ms. Stone and…
Editor’s Note: A few years ago, in New York City, a cab-driver from Russia asked me whether I liked Bollywood songs. I knew that Hindi films were popular in Russia. Still, I was amazed at his knowledge of films and songs from the 1950s. I was even more amazed when I was told about the popularity of…