{"id":314,"date":"2004-08-31T15:19:37","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T20:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=314"},"modified":"2005-06-16T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T15:00:19","slug":"everybody_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/31\/everybody_says\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Everybody Says I&#8217;m Fine&#8217; playing in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"RahulBose.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/RahulBose.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"99\" border=\"0\" align=left hspace=20 \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"KoelPurie.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/KoelPurie.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"114\" border=\"0\" align=right hspace=20 \/>\nArt film stud Rahul Bose&#8217; new wave film <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everybodysaysimfine.com\/\">Everybody Says I&#8217;m Fine<\/a><\/i> returns to Manhattan at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twoboots.com\/pioneer\">Pioneer Theater<\/a> from Sep. 1-8. The film, a thriller in English about a mind-reading hairdresser in Bombay, stars Bose <i>(Mr. and Mrs. Iyer)<\/i> and British desi Koel Purie <i>(<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/nri\/archives\/2004\/08\/american_daylig.html\">American Daylight<\/a>, Road to Ladakh)<\/i>. Upper Stall pointed out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upperstall.com\/everybodysaysimfine.html\">why the film is innovative<\/a>, part of a flowering of increasingly sophisticated Indian cinema which includes <i>Dil Chahta Hai<\/i> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/yuva.html\"><i>Yuva<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>ESIF is most unlike any other commercially made English film in India&#8230; The film is not intended for an international (read festival) audience. It is for English speaking Indians&#8230; Bose is certainly not trying to sell India with a typical portrayal of a kind of Indianess from a Western perspective&#8230; There is no deliberate indulgence in trying to woo a &#8220;crossover audience&#8221; (whatever that is.) It&#8217;s a good story to tell. And Bose has just happened to do it in English.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/yuva.html\">As usual<\/a>, the <i>New York Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/01\/movies\/01fine.html\">didn&#8217;t grok it<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art film stud Rahul Bose&#8217; new wave film Everybody Says I&#8217;m Fine returns to Manhattan at the Pioneer Theater from Sep. 1-8. The film, a thriller in English about a mind-reading hairdresser in Bombay, stars Bose (Mr. and Mrs. Iyer) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/31\/everybody_says\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}