Check out how this Brit-influenced Bollywood review reads in American English:<\/p>\n\n
[Salaam Namaste]<\/em> has a frothy<\/font> first half and an emotion-filled second half with the climax<\/font> that warms the very cockles of your heart. And, as a bonus, there is a cameo by Abhishek Bachchan at the fag end<\/font>. [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\nSomeone needs to take a rubber to the end of that review. It’s the kind of movie review-cum-double entendre which I’d never plunge into. At least not without a safe word.<\/p>\n\n
Not that Americans don’t do the same, only it’s intentional. Ang Lee’s<\/a> new gay cowboy Western<\/a> is entitled Brokeback Mountain. <\/em>The subtlety of the encoding is truly humbling. Heath Ledger and Donnie Snarko<\/a> stare longingly at each other for the entire length of the trailer<\/a>, but heaven forbid that they act. The love that dare not, is the wet sari that must not.<\/p>\n\n
I say let the rainbow flag fly. Bollywood has long repaid the compliment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Check out how this Brit-influenced Bollywood review reads in American English: [Salaam Namaste] has a frothy first half and an emotion-filled second half with the climax that warms the very cockles of your heart. And, as a bonus, there is … Continue reading