Yet there are so many misconceptions about the industry in the minds of even hardcore cinephiles that before describing what is Bollywood, it becomes an imperative to describe what is not Bollywood.
Just when the celebrations of the Prakash Gurpurab of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib were slowing pace in Mumbai, we got a very important news. ‘Fauja Singh is Running the Mumbai Marathon’.
With its boxy body and stubby tail fins, the dependable but modest Padmini taxi was once ubiquitous here, as synonymous with motoring in Mumbai as blaring horns and cows blocking traffic.
The urban poor in Mumbai play critical roles in providing services and subsidizing the cost of living. However, they have been the first ones to be sacrificed at the altar of development in this era of globalization.
On October 29, the Sikh community in Mumbai came together and cheered for brawny hunks from across the country at Shanmukhananda Hall in Sion, where they participated in Mr Singh India, a fashion show for Sikh men.
India is a country buoyed by a vibrant business world of call centers and software developers, but hamstrung by a bloated, corrupt government that has failed to deliver the barest of services.
Regardless, a gawking city has greeted the new tower with a mixture of moralizing and astonishment, envy and condemnation, all sprinkled with Freudian analysis of the most basic question: Why did he do it?
Mumbai artist Arshdeep Singh has received appreciation letters from PM. Manmohan Singh, President Prathibha Patil, former president Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and former president George Bush among others
In a video, MTV has used the visual of a Sikh man peeping into a room where a woman is massaging a man, and the tagline is ‘Jobs your parents won’t understand.’
