The director of Lagaan, Ashutosh Gowariker, was invited to join the film jury for the Academy Awards. He’s not on the foreign film jury, which is either an odd omission or a compliment. Gowariker is now advising the director of Shwaas, India’s current Oscars entry: it’s all about awareness, baby.
I haven’t yet seen Lagaan. The combination of cricket and Bollywood is an enumeration of boredom. You start with baseball, the sport of paunch and waiting. Slow it down further and you end up with cricket. Now play the game over multiple days and film it as a bladder-busting, four-hour Bollywood movie. It all makes Gujarati wedding rites or a flight to Moscow seem like a blessed relief.
Gowariker’s latest movie, Swades, releases Dec. 17. It’s about a desi NASA astronaut but does not star our in-house rocket scientist. Abhi wants you to know that…
Yes. I am VERY bitter.
Personally, I can’t believe Sonali filmed Kal Ho Na Ho in my daily haunts and ‘forgot’ to call me. What’s up with that?
Last night’s edition of Fox 11 News in Los Angeles had a segment about a cricket club thriving in a most unlikely location — the much-maligned city of Compton.
Click here to watch the story — Quicktime Video, 2 1/2 min. (2.4 MB)
Interesting to hear about cricket in compton. Why didn’t it get its own blog entry ?
Yup. Apul, great story– you should promote it to a post.
Promoted!
is cricket to smart for you to understand
is cricket to smart for you to understand
is the subtle, yet crucial difference between “to” and “too” “to smart for YOU to understand”?
couldn’t resist…