{"id":950,"date":"2005-01-18T20:39:24","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T01:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=950"},"modified":"2005-01-18T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T01:36:13","slug":"bombay_dreams_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/bombay_dreams_h\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombay Dreams, Heading to Bombay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/full_story.php?content_id=62991\"target=new>The Indian Express <\/a>is reporting that everyone&#8217;s favorite Bollywood inspired Broadway musical will be heading to the city that named it, Bombay. The show, which did a lot better in the UK, than it did in New York, will be heading to Bombay before heading to China and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n<p>A.R. Rahman, the genius behind some amazing Bollywood soundtracks and the music for Bombay Dreams, sounded a bit annoyed by the response his show received in the States, suggesting that we Americans aren&#8217;t as able to think outside of our culture.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u02dc\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u02dcAmericans are always talking about their own culture, so they can never be at the receiving-end and accept something from outside,\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122 he said, adding that the musical moved to America at the wrong time. \u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u02dc\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u02dcThis was the time when Americans felt that Indians were stealing their jobs, though I\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122m not at all disappointed.\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I wonder if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000946.html#more\"target=new> Star and Buc Wild<\/a> saw Bombay Dreams?\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Express is reporting that everyone&#8217;s favorite Bollywood inspired Broadway musical will be heading to the city that named it, Bombay. The show, which did a lot better in the UK, than it did in New York, will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/bombay_dreams_h\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}