CGN in Indian Media
September 1st 2008 01:00
Yes. CGN. Like SRK. Only far less talented.
The Indian Film Festival has hit Sydney, and I'm a Happy Chapati! Friday night was spent swathed in a sari, next to my husband (who at least wasn't wearing his "dress sneakers") at Cinema Paris. Needless to say, the "Red Carpet" did not get worn out by any illustrious personages from Indian Cinema. There was hardly anyone there at all, and I felt grossly overdressed and slightly ridiculous, especially as the actual Indian women were mostly in western wear.
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I must say I'm not quoted verbatim, and it's used in an odd context, but it is basically what I told her. There was something about the mum, aunties and even the seamstress in BILB that reminded me of my aunties and mother. However it was the embarrassment that Jasminder experienced in their company which was most familiar, as well as her conflict between making her own path in life, as a Pom living in an Indian diaspora commnity, expected to fit into both cultures seamlessly, and with strict adherence to the expectations both groups had of the behaviour for a girl in that culture. Subsequent Bollywood films, with the emotional manipulation that often happens to the young female characters, who struggle to honour their parents in situations where they consider not her wellbeing, but their own desires and paranoia of what others might think. Some of the families are so familiar. I feel my experiences in growing up are more legitimised, though not justified, in these films. Though the contexts may differ, the characters are very familiar to me.
I'd encourage you to go and check out some of the films on show during the festival. TZP is mandatory. "Jhoda Akbar" is a gorgeous epic starring a swashbuckling Aishwarya Rai and the stately Hritic Roshan's lovely eyes. Think "Indian Braveheart". There's also the spattering of mainstream Bollywood (Kareena Kapoor in "Jab We Met", and Imran Khan (not that one) being directed by his very clever Uncle Aamir, as well as Bengali, Kannada and other regional language films, which depict India more realistically than the glossy blockbusters.
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