Good morning, all! It's time for your Bollywood gossip!
The trailer for F.A.L.T.U. is out!
I'm actually looking forward to Jakky Bhagnani's relaunch!
* Read a cranky piece on Bollywood kitch...
If that is not enough, one has to contend with a renewed love for kitsch in pop-ular culture. Bollywood, the storehouse of everything kitsch decided to up the ante with over-the-top ritzy styled productions like Action Replayy and Once Upon a Time in Mumbai. Zangoora: The Gypsy Prince, the Bollywood- styled musical, the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games have all been an ode to Indian kitsch. Even the publishing world followed suit with Chennai-based Blaft reviving tamil pulp fiction with the screaming for attention kitsch covers.
You know, as much as I love actual films from the 1970s, I do understand this feeling. There is something really tiresome about a constant rosy nostalgia for the immediate past. And worse, the reduction of complex ideas and personalities to kitchy slogans and t-shirts. In the USA, you are constantly coming across things like tote bags with Audrey Hepburn on them, as if owning and displaying her image conveys a bit of her glamor to the bearer.
It's like people only want the Om Shanti Om version of the 1970s - like Gabbar Singh on a tea towel - and not the actual complex vision of the films from then.
* Prem Chopra is going to receive the Mother Theresa award.
* And Asha Bhosle is going to be in a film!
* Is Aamir Khan going to sport a giant handlebar mouche for Reema Kagti's film?
* First time producer Vinod Bachchan is pleased with the reaction to Tanu Weds Manu.
* My Friend Hitler clarifies that it is not glorifying Hitler.
* Rumors are flying that it will be Ranbir-Kat for the Magadheera remake.
* Jiah Khan is in Mumbai; not getting married; and may have some announcements soon.
* Pakistani rock band Jal will be writing for a Bollywood film!
* Rohit Shetty is blowing up 20 cars for the opening sequence of Singam.
* Dostana 2 has been dropped by Karan Johar.
* Here is one for Sunny Deol fans - somebody cycled from Allahabad to Varanasi to meet him!
The trailer for F.A.L.T.U. is out!
I'm actually looking forward to Jakky Bhagnani's relaunch!
* Read a cranky piece on Bollywood kitch...
If that is not enough, one has to contend with a renewed love for kitsch in pop-ular culture. Bollywood, the storehouse of everything kitsch decided to up the ante with over-the-top ritzy styled productions like Action Replayy and Once Upon a Time in Mumbai. Zangoora: The Gypsy Prince, the Bollywood- styled musical, the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games have all been an ode to Indian kitsch. Even the publishing world followed suit with Chennai-based Blaft reviving tamil pulp fiction with the screaming for attention kitsch covers.
You know, as much as I love actual films from the 1970s, I do understand this feeling. There is something really tiresome about a constant rosy nostalgia for the immediate past. And worse, the reduction of complex ideas and personalities to kitchy slogans and t-shirts. In the USA, you are constantly coming across things like tote bags with Audrey Hepburn on them, as if owning and displaying her image conveys a bit of her glamor to the bearer.
It's like people only want the Om Shanti Om version of the 1970s - like Gabbar Singh on a tea towel - and not the actual complex vision of the films from then.
* Prem Chopra is going to receive the Mother Theresa award.
* And Asha Bhosle is going to be in a film!
* Is Aamir Khan going to sport a giant handlebar mouche for Reema Kagti's film?
* First time producer Vinod Bachchan is pleased with the reaction to Tanu Weds Manu.
* My Friend Hitler clarifies that it is not glorifying Hitler.
* Rumors are flying that it will be Ranbir-Kat for the Magadheera remake.
* Jiah Khan is in Mumbai; not getting married; and may have some announcements soon.
* Pakistani rock band Jal will be writing for a Bollywood film!
* Rohit Shetty is blowing up 20 cars for the opening sequence of Singam.
* Dostana 2 has been dropped by Karan Johar.
* Here is one for Sunny Deol fans - somebody cycled from Allahabad to Varanasi to meet him!
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1 comment:
It's always a bit of a risk if you're excited for a film, and have high expectations, but F.A.L.T.U. looks quite promising. I love the principal, btw.
And Asha in a film - how lovely,
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