We finally got to see the location movie of the year – Slumdog Millionaire last night. Shot on location in the megaslums of Mumbai (there’s a great story about python wrangling along the train tracks at Hollywood Reporter), the film is choc-a-bloc with rich, pungent, vibrant, colourful, teeming, tumultuous images of that massive city –…
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Blonde, beautiful and brattish, Marigold Lexton (Ali Larter) is a self-absorbed, snarky, sassy D-movie star who gets stranded in India when her latest movie – Kama Sutra 3 – folds. Lying about her musical abilities, she blags her way onto the set of a glorious Bollywood film where she falls for the terribly decent and…
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Slumdog Millionaire hasn’t opened in SA yet, but you can’t help but notice the remarkable buzz about it over the net. The latest story in the London Times takes note of the influence of the movie on Mumbai’s controversial “slum tourism” industry. Slum tourism, which promises fee-paying outsiders a glimpse of life inside the city’s…
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