Posts tagged AR Rehman

Danny Boyle says Slumdog Millionaire is a British movie

Yeah, that’s right. Danny Boyle himself said in an interview with Times of India that Slumdog Millionaire is a British film. It’s in today’s newspaper under the title ‘It’s a British film, really’ by Meena Iyer of Times News Network. Significantly, when I tried to search for this article on their website I did not find it.

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Posted on February 24th, 2009 under India calling. Tags: AR Rehman, Danny Boyle, Indian, media, movie, Oscar, Slumdog Millionaire. Comments: 2

Slumdog Millionaire: Don’t get too carried away!

Why are we all getting carried away with Slumdog Millionaire? For a moment just forget about these awards and tell me if you guys even knew about this movie before it was flashed around as a winner? What’s so great about this that the entire country has gone bonkers over it? Why is every news channel and every newspaper touting this as an Indian victory because it’s most definitely not?

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Posted on February 23rd, 2009 under India calling. Tags: AR Rehman, awards, Bollywood, media, Slumdog Millionaire. Comments: 14

BJP: What next?



Out of hundreds of allegations of fake encounter deaths why is the focus of our entire nation on Sohrabuddin and Amit Shah? Is it because a fake encounter of a Muslim is a different story than that of a Hindu? And that too because it happened in Narendra Modi's Gujarat? Why is the CBI investigating only this case and not so many others where the guilty are quite likely from the Congress party? What about numerous allegations of fake encounters in Andhra Pradesh? What about the prosecution of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar in Sikh riots case? What about Ottavio Quattrochi?.....

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