Comments on: West Bollywood

By: Asam

Asam — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:44:46 +0000

I just googled Guru and Roger Nair I got 177,000 hits,but guess where? all the main stream news.The premiere pictures are all over the news.The Toronto Star Toronto Sun,Globe and Mail,National Post, Hollywood reporter,Variety,Canadian Business,Filmfare,LA times,New York Times,BBC,CBC,CNN the List keeps on Going.It is in the news even now .Every time they mention Bollywood they now mention Guru and how Roger Nair pulled it off.Its now called the Guru Phenomenon.Unreal !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kudos to Mr. Nair for bringing this premiere to Toronto

By: metric

metric — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:12:07 +0000

"he of little faith in barbershops"

heh heh. You funny and I miss your postings. This is belated, but SO glad to see you back!

By: Abhi-Warya

Abhi-Warya — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:33:20 +0000

So Guru and Guruian(Guru’s wife) got enggaged in real life. http://www.ibnlive.com/news/its-official-aishwaryaabhishek-are-engaged/top/31191-8.html

By: Whose God is it anyways?

Whose God is it anyways? — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:57:55 +0000

hi, hairy_d. well, i'm no music expert, but here's my gut reaction to the song: i liked it, but found it a bit out of place in the context of the movie. it's picturized in a Turkish setting in the 1950s, but sounds too modern to my amateur ears (but then again I don't know too much about 1950s Turkish or more accurately, Arab music). it may also have something to do with it being projeted onto Mallika Sherawat, playing a belly dancer. i found some of the choreography too "modern" for what i imagine bellydancing from that era would have been like. but again, perhaps someone more knowledgeable might have a different opinion.

overall, i liked the movie and found the acting and the music to be the strongest points. there are weaknesses in the movie in every area, but overall, it left a favorable impression on me. it was good to see mithun chakraborthy and both madhavan and vidya balan were underutilized. also, i wish guru's rise had been explored in more detail.

By: hairy_d

hairy_d — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:30:16 +0000

there's more to it than some vain fools tripping the red carpet tho'.

maryem tollar is an egyptian canadian singer who met rahman on the set of bombay dreams or somethin like that - and one thing ed to the other - and she ended up singing maiyya mayya a song on the guru soundtrack - despite not knowing a word of hindi. will be interested in your (WGIIA) opinion on how it came out. Also heard on CBC - she tried to get tickets to the premiere but heard that she'd still need to pay 250 for a ticket that was priced at 350 at the window - she demurred

wente writes for the globeandmail

Mr. Bhatia, who helped engineer this week's star-studded premiere, is the kind of man who makes you swear that immigration is the greatest thing this country has going for it. He came here in 1984 from New Delhi, and now, at 53, he's a classic immigrant success story.

And yet, Mr. Thomas is not as cheery as I am about Canada's great multicultural experiment. He points out that we, too, share the European disease of ghettoization, where people clump together in their own tribes. "You're the first white person I've talked to all month," he says, only half-facetiously. And alongside the spectacular successes such as Nav Bhatia are the failures who get stuck in marginal self-employment or behind the counter at a fast-food outlet. "That is when feelings of exclusion creep in," says Mr. Thomas. "People get trapped in the ghettos of their own minds."He argues that official multiculturalism, with its emphasis on race and difference, only makes matters worse. "We glorify something that never should have been glorified," he says. "Multiculturalism means you're always thinking about somebody's skin colour. In Mumbai, people don't think, 'Oh, I have to be inclusive with this guy.' People think, 'How can I do business with him?'

By: hairy_d

hairy_d — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:16:02 +0000

i dont know what to make of this. this is just all so uncanadian. i find the attention getting so indian, so american. i hope the market in the US develops faster and these guys just go straight on over and leave us alone. they'll be more comfortable there. i'll be more comfortable here.

chakk dey phattey, kiss my thattey.

By: Whose God is it anyways?

Whose God is it anyways? — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:58:14 +0000

after seeing guru, it’s clear that aishwarya is a director’s actress. she puts in very creditable performances under the likes of mani ratnam, rajiv menon, rituparno ghosh, and even sanjay leela bhansali. the theater was packed, and unlike during other movies, there was very little background chattering by the audience and only one or two people used the songs as a bathroom break.

By: namitabh bachchan

namitabh bachchan — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:22:12 +0000

neha, one more thing. it’s good to have you back )

By: namitabh bachchan

namitabh bachchan — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:02:56 +0000

really sorry to disappoint all of the abhishek/aishwarya fans, but maybe this is just an appearance to recover from the hot gas attack that was dhoom 2…

By: Henna

Henna — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:51:04 +0000

Oh yeah, I was JUST in India, and those wire headbands? ALL the rage for the guys there. I saw Abhishek wearing one a while back when he was doing a press conference for Umrao Jaan, and maybe that’s where it caught on from! At the time all I could think was: “Beckham wannabe!”