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Angry young woman that I am, the mention of Slumdog Millionaire gets my goat on most days. I think it’s a decent, engaging film, and have sat through it more than once. But the moment somebody feels that they know anything about Bollywood, Indian Cinema or [...]
Posted on January 6th, 2010 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: India, Media, UK | 13 Comments »
More than a year back, I’d done a post on High Heel Confidential. Unlike a lot of blogs (including this one), they’ve managed to remain wonderfully enthusiastic and original.
So there’s some odd-ball TV channel called Zing TV. And they’ve been shamelessly lifting stuff off High Heel Confidential.
Aaargh! Go mail them and call them [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2009 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Media | Comments Off
While I appreciate the sentiments in this post, I am troubled by the perceived black and whites. She writes for instance –
A very recent example would be an Indian website called Savita Bhabhi where a middle aged Indian housewife is seduced by everyone from the door-to-door salesman to her young neighbours. This works at [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2009 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Gender, Media | 5 Comments »
In what should be nominated as one of the most comic articles in the Guardian, the rather childish and overenthusiastic Nirpal Dhaliwal writes with extreme confidence
…Indians will be upset about a westerner having a better understanding of their country than they do….
…The bitter truth is, Slumdog Millionaire could only have been made by westerners…
I have [...]
Posted on January 16th, 2009 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Media, Music, Film and Art, Random Links | 27 Comments »
Honestly, I didn’t really care that Ram Gopal Verma was where he was. With bullets flying around in the financial capital of a country, having some has-been film director accompany the Chief Minister probably shouldn’t be most worrying aspect of the situation.
But what made me cringe, laugh and then react rather violently (thumping my floor) [...]
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: India, Marketplace and All Things Current, Media, Rants and Rambles | 22 Comments »
Ask Barkha Dutt to shut up someone. Seriously.
I’d rather have a newbie reporter doing things badly, than have BD attempting to create panic, because it suits her style of reporting. It’s like she wants you to not get out, and shake in shock. And for some reason she keeps talking of IC 814 – because [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: India, Media | 28 Comments »
A kid in Noida is killed, and the media is having a field day. It looks like Aarushi (the child) was murdered by her own father. NDTV is going an on an overkill approach – a panel discussion, a peep into the kid’s school project, the clothes she bought for her upcoming birthday. The ticker [...]
Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: India, Media | 18 Comments »
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