Sita (Nandita Das) and Radha (Shabana Azmi), Deepa Mehta’s Fire Jules (Keira Knightley) and Jess (Parminder Nagra), Gurinder Chadha’s Bend it Like Beckham Dear Friends, This is a continuation of my previous blog on Indian films: I dealt with Lagaan, Bombay, Guru, included comments on Mississippi Masala and Charulata, with links to Water and Before [...]
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Indian movies (Cont’d): Bend It Like Beckham and Fire, with a comment on My One and Only
Posted in Austen, feminism, Indian Films, Movies, Uncategorized, women's art, womens' films on October 4, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Indian movies: Lagaan, Bombay, Guru, with a commentary on Mississippi Masala and Charulata
Posted in Indian Films, Movies, tagged Gurinder Chadha, Maniratnam, Mira Nair on September 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The naive idealistic hopeful Muslim girl about to marry her Hindi beloved (from Bombay) Bhuvan’s heroic stand as batter (from Lagaan) Dear Friends, The last week or so I’ve returned to working on my book on Austen movies. One of the Sense and Sensibility movies is a Tamil free adaptation, Rajiv Menon’s I Have Found [...]
