Bollywood
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Quick Thoughts-
A set of quick thoughts: Vajpayee’s death marks a gentler India giving way to Modi’s, India’s upper classes are Westernising, Pakistan needs a ‘Pakistan of the Provinces’ under Imran Khan,…
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Has Manish Malhotra jumped the shark?
Questions designer Manish Malhotra’s ‘Indo-Persian’ collection Zween, saying it shows Bollywood with floral motifs rather than Iran, and suggests he should have called it back to Pakistan, since Mughlai high…
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The future of Hindi cinema
Using the Dhadak reviews as a prompt, X.T.M sees an ‘Ambanification’, ‘KJoification’ and ‘Modisation’ of Indian national culture, and expects regional films, such as Marathi and Tamil cinema, to supply…
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Dhadak
X.T.M calls the film Dhadak, an inter-caste romance, excellent and important, and lists observations: the sympathetic Christian characters, the BJP-like villain father, and the odd fact that inter-caste matches usually…
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Swara Bhaskar’s comments on Pakistan the Failing State
X.T.M links Swara Bhaskar’s interview repeating that Indians should not care what Pakistan’s failing state does, says Pakistan was wrong to ban Veere di Wedding, and opens a moderated thread…
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Lust Stories
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Raazi
X.T.M asks whether anyone at BP has seen Raazi, and excerpts a Deccan Chronicle review of Meghna Gulzar’s espionage thriller, which the review says takes neither side and stresses patriotism…
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Katrina Kaif is definitely half-Indian
X.T.M posts a comparison of Katrina Kaif and her fully English half-sister, remarking that the sister would not fit Bollywood’s ‘Desi ideal’ and that Katrina’s looks carry a degree of…
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Bombay – the Billionaire’s playground
X.T.M muses that Sindhis include many millionaires but fewer billionaires, and that Bombay’s overlapping circle of politicians, cricketers, Bollywood and industrial families is creating an elite unlike any other, with…
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The Bollywood caste
X.T.M calls Bollywood a caste of linked acting, industrial and cricketing families, mostly Punjabi and Muslim men, wonders where the Sikh men are, and argues that India’s modernisation, shaped by…
