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Steven Spielberg Goes To Bollywood
Looks as though development will bring more reflections on the Indian connection...
I'm very interested in how this will develop...
...the Indian's government demands inspired some questions and trying to answer them I came across some interesting background on the Indian Government and corruption.
I'm interested in how money changes attitudes...
Steven Spielberg Goes To Bollywood
This week, Steven Spielberg had his first close encounter with Bollywood, as Mumbai?s film industry is called. The director was in India?s film capital, in what was his first trip to the country in 30 years since he came location-scouting in 1983 for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, accompanied by his wife Kate Capshaw, DreamWorks co-chair Stacy Snider and other executives.
Spielberg?s visit, hosted by billionaire Anil Ambani whose Reliance Entertainment is an equal partner in DreamWorks Studios since 2009, was reportedly to celebrate the success of Lincoln. While the film won only two Oscars after garnering a dozen nominations, its box-office collections of over $200 million have more than compensated for that modest showing.
In a Q&A session following an interview with Indian superstar Amitabh Bachhan, Ambani asked him as to how he felt about not getting more Oscar trophies for Lincoln, to which Spielberg reportedly replied that the nominations were ?award enough.?
The film maker, who last shot in India in 1977 for Close Encounters of The Third Kind, is reportedly planning to co-produce a movie with Reliance, according to the Times of India newspaper, that will be set in Kashmir, on the India-Pakistan border, a region whose scenic beauty is marred by ongoing strife.
Looks as though development will bring more reflections on the Indian connection...
We're debating what exactly was portrayed, but as you say:russds said:Yeah, I actually thought it was interesting the article was from an Indian newspaper. It must be an interesting subject, because ToD portrayed Indian's pretty negatively, and back in the day, I think the negativity was more poignant.
russds said:As I was reading the article, I was thinking, would the author bring up ToD? Is that a touchy subject? Did Spielberg know (or ask) going in to the interview that they wouldn't talk about ToD, or controversy, or has it been so many years, that that hatchet has been burred?
I'm very interested in how this will develop...
...the Indian's government demands inspired some questions and trying to answer them I came across some interesting background on the Indian Government and corruption.
russds said:I guess ultimately I'm glad it wasn't brought up with negativity, but I think it would be interesting to know if Indian's (in general) still don't like ToD, how they feel about it now..30'ish years later. Especially in light of Spielberg's huge success as a film maker and his later films employing themes of Holocaust, war, etc.
I'm interested in how money changes attitudes...