India cinema will soon be world cinema what with Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group forming independent collaborations with prominent Hollywood names like Steven Spielberg and Ashok Amritraj. I think this attempt shall take Bollywood to a whole new level altogether, maybe it will now be called ‘Globallywood’. We have talent and now with the perfect international packaging, the films will be watched by a mixed global group. No wonder Anil Ambani has stepped forward to invest his money because the returns will be huge. The song-dance routine and traditional Indian values integral to Hindi movies have always been appreciated abroad. Now the approach will be a bit more international with the content being desi.
Amritraj calls the endeavour blending the world. He wants his films to overcome the cultural bridge and bring everyone together to celebrate life. His first film with Reliance is called ‘The Other End of the Line’ starring Jesse Metcalfe aka John Rowland of ‘Desperate Housewives’ and Shriya of ‘Sivaji: The Boss’ fame. The film also features Anumap Kher and is shot in Mumbai and San Francisco. It will be released in America on October 31.
Via economictimes

Finally, the sexual crime against men is being talked about in India. And who better than Bollywood to deal with the issue! Haven’t we heard of hundreds of ragging stories in college boy’s hostels where newcomers were asked to strip off completely, and some unfortunate ones even ending up getting raped? Well, no one’s really bothered to bring up issues like these before probably because we live in a male-dominated society. So quite obviously, the ‘superior male’ cannot be raped or abused; even the idea is completely unacceptable for the typical Indian mindset. But we all know how wrong they are. So you can see how the male domination goes against both women and men as well.
Scriptwriter Manish Gupta, a product of the RGV factory, is ready to don the director’s hat with his film ‘Hostel’. And nobody is going to witness a chocolaty college romance here but a grim tale of sexual abuse that male students are subjected to. Manish had been wanting to make a movie on this subject for a long time now. Apparently during his engineering college days, he once came across a male rape victim, who gave an expression as if he just died when asked if the rumours about his rape were true. As a positive step, the censors have cleared the film.
Quite a paradigm shift for India here, I must say. After all talking about a social evil is as good as preventing it.
Via delhitimes

The arena of Blogging was never burning such bright…thanks to the blogger’s bug whose current victims are Bollywood biggies like Amir khan, Big B and RGV to name a few. To join the bandwagon is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Her recent post is in reply to a rather dry comment on Ram Gopal Verma’s latest Sarkar Raj starring the Bachchan clan sans mother-in-law. Her blog is almost an immediate retaliation not only to the reader’s comment (a question on a particular scene of the film) but also to Ramu’s cheeky reply on the same!

While her doing so reflects the essence of an Indian Bahu (daughter-in-law) to stand by her spouse’s family in times good and bad on the one hand. On the other however, it also reflects the intolerance among the Bollywood celebrities to handle harmless criticism. I appreciate RGV’s stand to take it lightly but it seems the Bachchan clan is now too fussy about their celluloid characters as well (apart from their on-screen appearances’ so to say).

On a deeper note of course, one can’t blame the actor for getting fond of the roles he/she plays and Ash’s recent move reflects the human psyche of protecting the one whom we are fond of from world’s gaze (read critical comments in this case).

The lady’s move has started an exciting trend and we readers are eagerly waiting to see more of such stuff to juice up our virtual world. After all, who doesn’t enjoy watching two people in argument?

Via BroadBandIndiatimes