Filmi Philosophy

Episode 1: The Empire Writes Back

From 1962 Merchant-Ivory to 2007 Mira Nair, desis have been making art in English for a long long time. But are we ready for Bollywood in English? Some opening reflections on Desi films in English, Desi writing in English and some unrelated thoughts on the mind-blowing Delhi metro.

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Desi Dilemmas

Pandrinath

Mon Jun 25, 2007 21:05 UTC

Great ! Really great. Remeinded me of an incident when I was a trainee in Pittsburgh. An old lady in the "streetcar" as buses were then called asked me how long I had been in the states. When I told her ,"one month" she rolled up her eyes and said, "You guys are amzing. For one month, you speak deraned good English, son !

cool, thanks!

Smitha Radhakrishnan

Sat Apr 07, 2007 0:57 UTC

glad you liked it! :)

good one

Anonymous

Thu Apr 05, 2007 15:04 UTC

Good one..

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