Bollywood and Hollywood are getting closer and closer. Snoop Dogg makes a guest appearance in a song in Akshay Kumar’s new film “Singh is Kingg”. A fusion of hip-hop and bhangra with a simple chorus (“Singh is Kinng, Singh is Kinng, Singh is Kinng”), the song features Snoop Dogg giving “what up to all the…
Bipasha Basu entered Bollywood with a bang in the 2001 hit “Ajnabee”, a Bolly-Holly interpretation of Consenting Adults (1992). Bipasha was nominated for three Bollywood awards including the Best Female Debut Award. Her club song “Mehbooba Mehbooba” with Akshay Kumar as a massive hit.Bipasha made her breakthrough to Bollywood Stardom in the 2003 dark romantic thriller “Jism” (“Body”). Bipasha played…
In our earlier article on CNBC (Watching CNBC – A Bollywood Rasik’s Perspective – July 12), we drew a humorous analogy between the rumored “Maria Bartiromo – Erin Burnett” rivalry on CNBC (discussed in the New York Times Business Section – see our July 12 article) and the rumored “Bipasha Basu – Katrina Kaif” rivalry in Bollywood….
Compare the following two statements: “It is undeniable that the combination of excessively low interest rates maintained for a protracted period of time, and a steady, multi-year decline in market-determined volatility, was the recipe that enabled Wall Street Firms to leverage their balance sheets to levels that were several standard deviations from historical norms. The deleveraging of…
Editor’s Note: This week, the Television and Print Media in America has written numerous articles on Iraq. This has prompted us to write our views on this critical global issue. We think readers will find our non-partisan perspectives on Iraq to be different from what is found in print media such as the New York…
“Fast Money” has been a major hit for CNBC. This is a show for active traders who like to trade stocks for quick profits. Hence the name “Fast Money”. The “experts” on this show are professionals traders who trade their own or their firms’ accounts. This lends both credibility and emotion to their pronouncements. The…
These clips were brought to our attention by two friends of this blog: Madhav Chavan of Pratham Fame (www.pratham.org) and Rachel Saltz of the New York Times The first clip is the performance: The second clip features Katee and Joshua talking about Bollywood and their training: Send your comments to [email protected]
Have you ever felt that Life has been unfair to you? That some how, fate has not allowed you to be all you could have been, to achieve all that you could have achieved with some luck? Next time you feel so, think of Karna. Compare your experiences to how Fate treated Karna and you…
With more than 74,000 verses, long prose passages, and about 1.8 million words in total, the Maha-Bharat (The Great story of the Bharat Dynasty) is one of the longest epic poems in world history. Including the Harivamsha, the Maha-Bharat has a total length of more than 90,000 verses.The Maha-Bharat is an integral part of World…
Indonesian actress Christine Hakim, a six-time recipient of Indonesia’s prestigious Piala Citra award for best actress, grew up watching Shammi Kapoor films according to an article in the Hindustan Times on July 17. “A lot of Bollywood content is shown on TV in Indonesia. Bollywood existed in my country even before I was born. I…