Showing posts with label Bollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bollywood. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Fawad Khan Controversy: A Particular Kind Of Stupid

मैंने खुबसुरत पिक्चर देखी। सोनम कपुर नयी एक्टर आयी है। देखते हैं कैसी है। बहुत अच्छा लगा। The material has been handled very well. I think India is at a crossroads. आर्थिक तरक्की करनी है। लेकिन उसका मतलब आँख मुंद के westernization करना नहीं होता। सोंच समझ के कदम लेने होते हैं।

सीता मैया का स्वयंवर हुवा था। कृष्ण ने अर्जुन को कहा अपने बहन को ले जाने को। क्यों कि बहन अर्जुन को पसंद करती थी। लड़का लड़की खुद एक दुसरे को पसंद करे वो अच्छी बात है। लेकिन family values बहुत अच्छी बात है। परिवार और diet के मामले में जो है उसे खोना नहीं चाहिए।

तो मैंने देखा कोई नया लड़का है। कितना लाजबाब acting है। नाम नहीं मालुम था। थोड़ा हट के acting style था।



जैसे ये एक सीन देखो। जब पेंट गन से लगती है तो ये जनाब जब अपने शरीर के पेंट को छुते हैं तो वो कितना measured gesture है। नहीं तो बॉलीवुड वाले रोना धोना शुरू कर देते हैं। यहाँ एक restraint है जो कि it is a breath of fresh air.

बाद में जो controversy हुइ तो नाम तो मेरे को मालुम था नहीं। बहुत बाद में पता चला कि ये तो उसी एक्टर के बारे में बात कर रहे हैं।

मुंबई में ढेर सारे backbenchers of patriotism भरे पड़े हैं। उतनी ही शौक है तो जाओ बॉर्डर पर बन्दुक ले के पहरेदारी दो। ये hate filled armchair patriotism? Patriotism is supposed to be a love statement. Hate and love don't go together.

दो देश को जोड़ेंगे तो कलाकार ही जोड़ेंगे। नेता लोगों से तो हो नहीं रहा।

कला की कद्र करो। बेबकुफी बंद करो।




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हाल ही में फिर देखा एक म्युजिक वीडियो। वीडियोग्राफी देख के मैं चकित हो गया। एक सेकंड में कितना डाला जा सकता है देखो। वहाँ भी कॉन्ट्रोवर्सी। इस फिल्म के हेरोइन पर भी ताला चाभी।

बैन करना ही है तो अमिताभ और शाहरुख़ दोनों को करो। दोनों ५०% पाकिस्तानी। एक की माँ पाकिस्तान से दुसरे का बाप।

हद हो गयी।


Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Get Well Soon, Priyanka Chopra

Street Food Delight: Lamb Over Rice

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@priyankachopra Pride of India, Get well soon. From the good people of the Woodside Gurudwara.

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Pigeons by St. Patrick's

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Candle Offering

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Sunday 10:15 AM Service, St. Patrick's

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Monday, January 09, 2017

Golden Globes



So, I read the full Meryl Streep speech in a Washington Post article, not because she bashed anybody, but because I have liked her acting for so long. She has been the Fidel Castro of Hollywood, in how long she has dominated. She is easily the best actor of her generation, male or female. She has this range that no one else has had in the industry. She does her thing. And is a joy to watch. And I thought she was also looking fabulous.

The two Bollywood mavens were both looking golden. I looked up on Google Images. Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone. I am sure both were much watched back in India. I believe they are just getting started. I expect them to do very well over the years. Bollywood needs to start making movies for the mainstream American audiences. India, after all, is the largest English speaking country in the world.

The sheer volume of PC's work is mind boggling.

#GoldenGlobes @sofiavergara

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Snowed in...#delayed #nyc #LA #goldenglobes #nosleep #asusual #flysafe #grrrr #zzzzz

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Saturday, January 07, 2017

प्रियंका, वंशाली और विश्व

Priyanka Chopra set to produce a Nepalese-Sikkimese film titled Paua 

PC is not the only or even the first Bollywood biggie with her own production house but her foray into regional movies does stand out, and I have watched it with interest. Bhojpuri and now Nepali. I am conversant in both! I attended high school in Kathmandu after all.

Diversity is a good thing. It is like would you rather have one giant paddy field where the Amazon is, or do you like the forest better? That is not even a question.

Technology is fast catching up with diversity. It is only a matter of time before Artificial Intelligence will be able to translate from every language to every other language. Which means your first language spoken by only 10 million people will be as good as English for science and commerce. Is that big? I think so. The point is the languages are not going away and that's a good thing.

Another disruption is digital technology. Why does a movie have to be two or three hours? Why can't it be 20 or 30 minutes? Why do you need a movie theater? Why can't movies have online releases only? When you start asking those questions you realize there can be a movie industry in every town in India. The costs go down drastically. So you make a Bhojpuri mini movie and post it online and next thing you know you have a global audience. There are tiny pockets of Bhojpuri speakers all over the world. The YouTube ad revenue might not be enough though, a pay per view model might work better. One dollar per movie? How about 10 cents?

Perhaps PPP (Purple Pebble Pictures) ought to build that platform. It would be like the Apple app store. It is pay per view, it is global, the platform has strict editorial guidelines, the revenue split is 30-70, something like that.

I look at Sanjay Leela Banshali and I think, this is a global level talent, but his heart is still colonized. Why could he not cast someone like Priyanka Chopra and make a movie in English for the mainstream American audience? एक मानसिक दासता है जिसे उतार फेंकने की जरूरत है।

There is no dearth of story writers. You fish for stories in the global exploding literature market. And you buy movie making rights and you adapt.

इन्डिया में कहते हैं, अरे देखो प्रियंका तो अमेरिका चली गई। किधर अमेरिका चली गई? हॉलीवुड उन्हें वापस इन्डियन मार्केट में ला रही है। सारे दुनिया ले जा रहे हैं और पैसे छाप रहे हैं।

बाजिराव मस्तानी वुडी एलेन की वैसी ही कहानी वाली विकी क्रिस्टीना वार्सिलोना से बेहतर है। तो टैलेंट तो है। लेकिन मानसिक दासता भी तो है।

Friday, January 06, 2017

Priyanka Chopra, The Media And The Bigger Picture

Priyanka Chopra Loves Big Diamonds and Yachts: ‘I Work Very Hard to Spoil Myself’

Mumbai, New York City, Toronto, London, Shanghai, all these megacities are perhaps more like each other than the rest of their own countries. And if you want a slice of India in New York there's always Little India, or full blown Jackson Heights, which is more like Sitamadhi (Bihar). Plus, after doing 50 movies in India, I doubt Priyanka Chopra did not feel prepared enough facing the camera in the US. In fact, it looks bad on Bollywood, at least the corporate aspects. Hollywood is taking the PC show all over the world and minting money. Why could not Bollywood make movies for the mainstream American audience?

A movie star acts as per the script. It is the writer who decides. The director shapes the presentation. And the 24/7 media saturation topped with social media omnipresence, and you see this constant feed. The society feeds the art feeds the society. It is an ongoing conversation. To quote PC: "Alex is nothing like me."

A few days back I blogged on the topic of the media in two countries as seen through this crossover movie star.

Seeing Priyanka Chopra On The Kapil Sharma Show

Only one episode earlier he goes full blown sexist on some TV news anchor, a new name and face to me.



I am sorry to make note, because I greatly admire Kapil Sharma, who I once called the funniest Homo Sapien on earth. He is the king of comedy globally right now. I like him much.

I actually have a news section on my Google News page for Priyanka Chopra. I also have one on Modi.

One news item today presents PC in a full Meterial Girl Madonna mode.

Priyanka Chopra Loves Big Diamonds and Yachts: ‘I Work Very Hard to Spoil Myself’

It is in sharp contrast to a news clip on YouTube from years ago where she says, I don't enjoy shopping.

The more famous you get bigger the mess the media makes of you. Take Amitabh Bachchan, a genuinely nice person. The media ran with the Amitabh Rekha non story for literally decades.

In politics I have seen this happen to Bill Clinton, or the Clintons. There is this political spectrum. And every point on that spectrum needs its own angle. And there is a media outlet to feed every such expectation.



Wednesday, January 04, 2017

Health Advice For Priyanka Chopra



The globally favorite Desi girl has made a New Year resolution, and it is to do with health. I was thinking about writing a blog post to do with health for a few days now. Now I found a good excuse to put it out, so here goes.

(1) The Metabolism Slows After Age 35

People don't overeat. They eat the same that they had been eating. But suddenly they feel like they are now fighting an ever losing battle. They quite literally balloon. Like one comedian put it: "I have become an auntie now!" You can take the gender part out. Happens to men as much as to women. It is the biology of metabolism. Reduce the amount you eat after age 35, because your metabolism is not the same any more. After his heart attack Bill Clinton decided to eat smaller portions, "because your body throws out half of it anyways."

How Your Metabolism Changes in Your 20s, 30s, and 40s
around age 40, your body’s natural decline in muscle mass, called sarcopenia, sets in. To combat the loss of lean mass and keep your metabolism revved, you really have to turn to strength training. .... people who lift weights put on less belly fat as they age than cardio bunnies .... On top of pumping iron, eating enough protein (about 100 to 120 grams a day) will boost your efforts to get stronger. “A woman who was sedentary in her twenties and thirties can actually have a higher metabolic rate in her forties if she exercises and changes her diet”
Boost Your Metabolism After 40
Turning 40 ..... This milestone age brings grim realities like a slowing metabolism, resulting in seemingly unexplainable weight gain. Indeed, after 40 your metabolism winds down 5% every 10 years, which means you have to consume fewer calories and work out more just to maintain your normal weight. .... cut 100 calories from your daily intake. Easy ways to trim 100 calories include removing skin from chicken breasts; using skim instead of whole milk in coffee; swapping mustard for mayo on sandwiches; and eating plain hamburgers rather than cheeseburgers. ...... After 40 your estrogen levels drop which causes insulin levels to go up and thyroid levels to go down, both of which increase hunger. You wind up eating more and burning fewer calories, which adds to the fat deep inside your belly known as omentum fat. ....... Soluble fiber is your best defense against hunger and belly fat. It fills you up fast so you eat less and stay satisfied. At 40 you should consume 25 grams of fiber daily. ...... Muscle burns 3 times more calories than fat cells, which means loss of muscle mass causes weight gain and an inability to shed pounds. ...... at 40, women lose muscle mass twice a fast as men. You lose the most muscle mass on the body’s largest surface areas like the core muscles supporting your shoulders and belly, as well as your thighs. ..... Simple squats are great for firming up thigh muscles; try doing them in the kitchen while you wait for dinner to finish cooking. ..... Oolong tea contains polyphenols that help block fat-building enzymes. This young tea is low in caffeine so you can drink it throughout the day for continued results. ..... Black pepper contains the alkaloid piperine, which helps speed up metabolism. Add black pepper to tomato juice for a double metabolism boosting effect—tomatoes contain lycopene, an antioxidant that helps protect your mitochondria. Reach for the pepper mill when you’d normally use salt; you’ll boost your metabolism and reduce your sodium intake. ....... Beans are chockfull of soluble fiber to help lower insulin levels so you store less fat and also feel fuller. Eat 2 cups of red, white or black beans to get your recommended daily fiber intake of 25 grams. ....... drinking ice water forces your body to burn calories by bringing your body temperature back to normal. Eight glasses of ice water a day works off 70 calories. Drink ice water before a meal to feel fuller quicker.
(2) Anti Aging And Spirituality

Modern research has found out what spirituality has known all along. Modern scientific research shows reducing calorie intake is the only known way to reduce the aging process and live longer. The Buddha shared with his disciples what he had learned through trial and error. He said, eat whatever you want and as much as you want, just eat only between the hours of sunrise and noon. Today we call it intermittent fasting. To that I would add, make sure you drink plenty of water. Three liters per day is recommended. Most often when you feel hungry it is because you are actually feeling thirsty. Drinking water half an hour before a meal does wonders to how much you end up eating. See if you can eat a total of two meals a day, and only between sunrise and sunset. Lunch then is one liter of water. Replace coffee with green tea. 10 quick squats or push ups do what coffee does. But hey, I like coffee myself. A cup or two is good.

Hormones And Weight Gain After 40 | The Biology Of Aging
Calorie Restriction Explained
Calorie restriction or caloric restriction, usually abbreviated to CR, is a strategy proven to extend healthy, average, and maximum life span in many short lived species, including mice and rats, and at least healthy and average life span in primates. ....... up to a 40% increase in maximum life span ..... any gain in primate (and especially human) life span through CR is much more modest than that observed in mice. ..... a greatly lowered risk for most degenerative conditions of aging ..... Many people find it easy to mistake low-level thirst for low-level hunger.
Reducing calorie intake by just 10% extends life expectancy and slashes the risk of disease
Live Longer: The One Anti-Aging Trick That Works
While the quest for the proverbial Fountain of Youth is endless and typically fruitless, one method known to extend the human lifespan by up to five years has quietly become accepted among leading researchers..........The formula is simple: Eat less. It could add years to your life, several experts now say. And done in moderation, it could at least help you live a more healthy life.
(3) Eat Plenty Of Fruits And Vegetables

Eating less does not mean starve, it definitely does not mean not eating a balanced diet. Malnutrition is not being recommended. Malnutrition is what defeats dieting discipline. The body fights back. Hard. So, make a point to eat a balanced diet, even as you reduce calorie intake.

(4) Eat, Sleep, Exercise

Sleeping eight hours each night, going to bed at the same time every hour, staying away from all screens for at least two hours before bed time, reading scripture for 30 to 60 minutes in the evening: these are some to do things. Sleeping plenty should be easy. But that is something many people skip out on. If you eat right, and if you sleep plenty, you can get by with little exercise. Even so, an hour of exercise per day is recommended.



Sun Raha Hai Na Tu
Seeing Priyanka Chopra On The Kapil Sharma Show
Laila Main Laila: Amazing Videography
Modi's BHIM App Is Tectonic
Priyanka Chopra, Racism, Sexism, America, India
The Indian Trinity In America
Quantico
Xi Jinping: Reformer?
The Right Way To Interview Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chopra And American Racism
बॉलीवुड को अन्ग्रेजी पिक्चर बनाना चाहिए
प्रियंका चोपड़ा और बिकीनी
Priyanka Chopra's Crossover Is A Geopolitical Event

Sun Raha Hai Na Tu

Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Seeing Priyanka Chopra On The Kapil Sharma Show



Kapil Sharma has reached unprecedented heights in Indian comedy and most of the time he is respectful and playful. But once in a while he shows flashes of arrogance.

Or maybe the media is thoroughly sinful everywhere, expressing the basest sentiments in all societies, especially since it went 24/7 and there is so much time slot to fill. I have never owned a television, and written articles might be less heavy on the gossip angles.

Watching Priyanka Chopra's media interactions in America and India has been educational for me. The American media comes across as deeply racist. The Indian media comes across as super, off the charts sexist.

Perhaps the Robert De Niro route was better. The movie star who defined an era absolutely refused media interviews and when such became absolutely inescapable he would come across as incoherent, a man of a few words, if not grunts, and even a mute. His point was, my work is in the movies. If you like my work, watch my movies. He felt media appearances took away from his movies by diluting his image and the character building in the movies. He was right, but that distance might not be possible no more in this age of media saturation. Robert De Niro must watch in horror as movie stars these days make a movie and then go on the media circuit to promote the movie. He must feel that robs from the audience the movie experience.

And so Kapil Sharma makes this grand super sexist statement on the only movie star to have reached the heights of the two biggest movie industries in the world..... by organizing a band baaja barat. Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 1992 for being a career woman. So I guess being a career woman in India is still a really big deal. It is a new phenomenon.

Kapil Sharma is a genuinely talented person, but the super sexism of the society he springs forth from comes through.

It's like a few weeks back I watched an old interview of Priyanka Chopra and it was 30 minutes of the TV show host completely ignoring PC like she was not even there, because she is a woman.

This is sad because PC is ascendant in Hollywood and poised to reach greater heights. That ought to be a self esteem boost to Indians everywhere in all walks of life, a self esteem boost also to Indian men, especially to Indian men. Because there are many more Indian men trying to do things.



Priyanka Chopra to sign Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next with Shah Rukh Khan?
Priyanka Chopra says she can't say no to Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Will her next Bollywood project be Bhansali's film with Shah Rukh Khan?
Amitabh Bachchan Gets Emotional After Daughter Shweta Hosts A Surprise Dinner
The Bachchans met in the New Year for the first time and Shweta Nanda took over get-together arrangements which touched Big B deeply

Friday, December 30, 2016

Laila Main Laila: Amazing Videography



This is amazing two and a half minutes of video. This song has been done so well from so many different angles.

Obviously this is the famous Qurbani song. Bollywood was "revealing" even back then. In fact Arab belly dancing goes back hundreds of years.

I chanced upon this video yesterday and watched it so many times. The day before that I watched the Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya video numerous times.

The song is beautifully done. Sunny Leone is an apt pick. The crowd reminded me of the Jumma Chumma song, but this actually is done better, because in the Jumma Chumma song the crowd is like wallpaper, Amitabh so dominates.

King Khan has managed to strike just the right balance. There is no mistaking who the song revolves around. But the crowd appears to be very much part of the action. Har Koi Chahe Mujhse part comes alive on the screen.

Sunny has done a fabulous job. I just watched her on the Kapil Sharma Show yesterday on YouTube.
Look at the camera work. In the very beginning when the video becomes a photograph but the music continues, it feels like you are on a slippery slope. And the sound of the gunshot feels so part of the song. King Khan makes total claim to the song those few seconds even while giving almost all screen time to Sunny whose secret to beauty is her confidence. She is indeed very beautiful.

Both Katrina Kaif and Sunny Leone have come to work in Mumbai from the west like Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone have gone west without leaving Mumbai.

Indian women are conquering the world. About time.

The dance choreography is mind boggling. It is a perfect blend of the song you hear, made more powerful because it is an old classic, and the graceful moves, powerful for being simple. But the magic is in the grace.


Monday, December 12, 2016

Priyanka Chopra, Racism, Sexism, America, India

Binge watching Quantico is on my to do list. I binge watched Kevin Spacey and Amitabh Bachchan, and it was a great experience. I also have binge watched the show 24. It is my impression Quantico is along the lines of 24. But Priyanka Chopra is all over the media. I have noticed for months now. She is on the cover of magazines. There are videos of her making appearances on American TV all over YouTube. She was the most googled after Leonardo DiCaprio at the last Oscars. That is a powerful metric. What you have to note there is that Priyanka met Leo while she is on the way up and Leo is on the way down. Dwayne Johnson is the top paid actor in Hollywood? Not for long if Priyanka has her way.

She is a first. No Hollywood actor has ever eased into Bollywood. No Bollywood actor has ever eased into Hollywood like she has. The world is her oyster. Pun intended. For her mother seems to suggest PC is all into oysters. There are pictures on her Instagram of her ordering oysters in many parts of the world.

What rankles though is the media treatment. The tablet that God handed over to Moses on the mountain was also meant for the media. Take note.

The glaring racism and sexism is so in your face. For example, there is one dumb white male, and two young black women, all into fat shaming PC. That is a pattern. You connect the dots and you see there is some Roger Ailes type fatso somewhere in the background pulling the strings. When you deliver the racist, sexist message through a black woman, then maybe it is not racist and sexist, that is the thinking.

Many working class Americans work two jobs. That is not lazy. An average American is fat. But that is not about people being lazy. The average American is fat for the same reason something as gigantic as the Pacific is choking with plastic. The American Big Pharma has managed to kill half the gut bacteria in American tummies. That is the top reason why the average American is fat. It is chaos.

Bollywood is not the Indian version of Hollywood any more than the thali is the Indian version of the hamburger.





The family in America is weak precisely because Americans do not worship Lord Rama, the first human incarnation of the Holy Father. Rama created the family, and established justice is above wealth, knowledge, power. Lord Krishna created the modern state and laid out the rules for use of force to uphold justice. Lord Jesus built the bridge to heaven, and created the person on earth, the person of the one person one vote democracy, the basic unit of the modern economy. India could not become a modern state and economy unless it opens up its heart to Jesus.



Thursday, December 08, 2016

The Indian Trinity In America





Friday, November 18, 2016

Quantico

This is the best media treatment of Priyanka Chopra I have come across.

The Paley Center: Quantico

Makes me want to binge watch the show. I am thinking it might be online somewhere.

The nugget for me was the real FBI Director saying the real Quantico is not as diverse as the show Quantico and he would like to change that.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

बॉलीवुड वाले विश्व मार्केट के लिए अन्ग्रेजी फिल्म क्यों नहीं बनाते?

अमरीका मन्गल ग्रह गया तो भारत भी गया, लेकिन दश गुना कम खर्च में। बॉलीवुड वाले को देखो सिर्फ फिल्म में हिंदी बोलते हैं नहीं तो मिडिया में पुरा इंग्लिश मीडियम। After all, India is the largest English speaking country in the world.

तो फिर बॉलीवुड वाले विश्व मार्केट के लिए अन्ग्रेजी फिल्म क्यों नहीं बनाते?

Friday, November 04, 2016

The Right Way To Interview Priyanka Chopra


This is the right way.

No risk of Indian jihad.

She is Bollywood royalty.

People in America think Bollywood is the Indian version of Hollywood. And it is not.

For one it is much bigger. They produce three times as many movies.

Two, Indian fans are much more diehard. The most admired actors have pretty much deity status.

Three, family values are intact. Indians worship Rama, the first human incarnation of Yahweh, or Vishnu. Rama created the family on earth like Jesus created the person on earth.

America and India are twin countries. If not that, at least sibling countries. Democracy is a beautiful thing.

Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Priyanka Chopra And American Racism

America is a fundamentally racist country. America is as much into mindless, unthinking racism as people generally were into mindless assaults 2,000 years ago.

Hollywood is the most racist place in America with the possible exception of the US Senate.

You get to see some of that when Priyanka Chopra gets interviewed on American TV.

So Ellen. She is gay and female and small. And so she is the make you feel good person. If you can tolerate Ellen then you have proven you are a really really tolerant person. Hillary picked Ellen as the first show after the debates. Because Ellen is gay and female and small.

But Ellen has to ask Priyanka Chopra, "Do they drink over there in India?"

Some of the most famous Bollywood songs are around drinks. There is an entire genre of songs - ghazals - that revolve entirely around drinks. Not saying that drinking is essential and wonderful and when you drink you have really arrived or anything like that. But do they drink anywhere in the world?

The point is, if you have to ask, do they drink in India, you are about to ask, do you ride elephants to school? I rode an elephant once, but not to school, and I did not even grow up in India, I grew up an Indian in Nepal: my kind are still waging a civil rights movement for basic rights for being Indian.

Do you ride elephants to school? That actually was a question Priyanka Chopra was asked when she attended high school for a few years in Flushing, Queens, of all places.

But Ellen is a candlelight compared to a dumb white guy who shall remain nameless because I really don't know his name. He goes ahead and calls Priyanka Chopra "Miss Piggy Chops, because you eat like a pig, all the time, and your last name is Chops." On live television. Prime time television.

I was dumbstruck. If Indians were into things like jihad they would call a jihad on that dumb white ass, if you have any idea how popular Priyanka Chopra is in India.

She is Bollywood royalty.

But then this is a country where 40% of the people have felt the urge to delegitimize the first black president and the Senate Majority Leader would rather burn the US constitution for good rather than let the president appoint a judge like that document says.

But it is also a country where the top paid actor right now is a black guy. Opposite whom Priyanka Chopra is starring in a movie.

She came, she saw, she conquered even as the dumb white guys of the world stayed busy asking their dumb questions, like, can I call you Miss Piggy Chops?

She has the Body Mass Index of someone who has not destroyed half her gut bacteria.

Racism is a lot of people's idea of an ice breaker. I am going to say something racist and you are going to act like you are okay with it, then I am going to be nice to you about other things. Because I need to get the big picture right first.

But if you don't put up with that first racist comment they are utterly lost, like you had suddenly dropped them in the jungles of Burma without so much as a map.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

बॉलीवुड को अन्ग्रेजी पिक्चर बनाना चाहिए

Deepika Padukone to present award at MTV EMAs

प्रियंका चोपड़ा और दीपिका पादुकोण का जो क्रौसोवर हुआ है वो किस लिए? स्वाभाविक है टैलेंट है।

लेकिन एक बिजनेस एन्गल भी है। हॉलीवुड वाले इन्डियन मार्केट को टार्गेट कर रहे हैं।

बॉलीवुड में देखो। पिक्चर बनाते हैं हिन्दी में लेकिन इन्टरव्यू से लेके अवार्ड फंक्शन सब इंग्लिश मीडियम।

अमरीका मार्स गया। तो भारत भी गया। और बहुत कम खर्चे में। उसी तरह बॉलीवुड वाले को इंग्लिश में फिल्म बनाना चाहिए अमरीकी मार्केट के लिए। ग्लोबल मार्केट
के लिए।

Strictly business.

जब गोरों ने भारत पर राज किया तो 30 करोड़ भारतीयों पर तीन लाख गोरों का राज था। सैनिक, सिपाही, कर्मचारी सब भारतीय।

दुनिया के इतिहास में मानसिक गुलामी का उससे बड़ा उदाहरण नहीं मिलेगा।

अभी टेक्नोलॉजी में देखो। सैनिक, सिपाही, कर्मचारी सब भारतीय।

Thursday, October 20, 2016

प्रियंका चोपड़ा और बिकीनी

क्वान्टिको अभी तक देख नहीं पाया। लेकिन हिट शो है। तभी तो सीजन दो तक आ गई। मेरे पास टीवी नहीं। गरीब आदमी।

हॉलीवुड बिजनेस है। पैसे छापते हैं। प्रियंका चोपड़ा के मार्फत भारत का मार्केट ताक रहे हैं।

अब एक मुवी बना रहे हैं। बेवाच।

सलमान का एक मुवी आया। सुल्तान। पहलवान। मैंने अभी देखा नहीं। लेकिन ट्रेलर देखा है। लन्गोटी पहने  सलमान चक्कर लगा रहे हैं।

अभी तक किसी ने एक कमेंट नहीं मारा। कि देखो। सलमान ने भारतीय पुरूष की तौहीन कर दी। सारी की सारी बॉडी दिखा दी। लन्गोटी मैचिंग कलर का है। लगता है जनाब नंगे घुम रहे हैं। भारतीय परम्परा सन्सक्रिती सब सत्यानाश।

अभी तक किसी ने एक कमेंट नहीं मारा।

बिकीनी और लन्गोटी में क्या फर्क है? कोई फर्क नहीं।

बेवाच में जो बन्दा हीरो है वो अभी हॉलीवुड में टप पेड ऐक्टर है। नम्बर वन। काला आदमी। एक काला आदमी वाशिंग्टन में रिटायर हुआ नहीं दुसरा हॉलीवुड पर छा गया।

प्रियंका चोपड़ा ने तो I came I saw I conquered वाली बात कर दी। सत्य नादेला, सुन्दर पिचाइ और प्रियंका चोपड़ा, तीनों बराबर। लेकिन रफ्तार के हिसाब से तीनों में नम्बर वन प्रियंका।

This is a geopolitical shift.  

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Priyanka Chopra's Crossover Is A Geopolitical Event

Priyanka Chopra on Nightline

This is the first time a top Bollywood star has eased into being a top Hollywood star. This is big.

America and India now are what America and Britain used to be. The oldest modern democracy and the largest democracy are natural allies.

Priyanka Chopra is like Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai. She is a role model.

And she stays Indian.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Priyanka Chopra