Slumdog Millionaire ... what should movies be like

pardesi writes "Vikram pundit, Indra Nooyi and numerous other Chinese and Indian executives who are running major corporations and research centers are well respected."

Well respected maybe but i) not because of their Indianness but how well they have molded themselves based on the "white" norm and ii)They are unknown with respect to their Indianness in the mainstream.

The mainstream racist culture of the US associates Indians with cheap motels and Chinese with restaurants that serve dog and cat meat as chicken.

Have a nice day and keep up the struggle for your right to be respected for who you are not how well you kiss the white man's a$$

TNITC masadi

105 masadi - "motel and restaurant operators"

Vikram pundit, Indra Nooyi and numerous other Chinese and Indian executives who are running major corporations and research centers are well respected.

Anyway, the book talks about a) future projections based on education and economic trends and b) economies in their home countries or their neighborhood. There is no doubt that Chinese and Indian future is bright and unless they screw up in a major way (always a possibility), their economic output, and therefore influence, will be substantially higher over next 10-20 years than other countries who are unable to join the race for one reason or another.

Re: # 106

Welcome back Masadi

I have stated the same, thanks

later....

Ana writes "The way time's a flyin'"

Time is flying because life in a rationalized structure is meaningless and memory less, it is one long drag and so brain doesn't get memory impressions that are significantly different to gauge the passage of time.

I have the copyright on this explanation.


TNITC masadi

rf writes "Barack or Barak means 'lightning' in Hebrew."

As does Buraq in Arabic.

pardesi writes "Indians and Chinese are considered future competitors in knowledge....."

You have it wrong, they are considered motel and restaurant operators respectively, no competition is involved in the equation, they are looked down upon based on racism which is endemic to the American structure.

TNITC masadi

bubba writes "i hope the world realizes that hollywood and bollywood are coming together in an unholy alliance to dominate the world. "

Not coming together, coming together signifies some form of equality. Here the top and the slave are well separated, before it was unwilling theft of story lines and ideas, now it is willing. In the end neither of them has any political depth and always present public issues in terms of personal moral failing to promote the status quo of a barbaric structure that is legitimized by moral slogans....

Did I cross the line again for chowk staff to ban me for 24 hours and then throw the key away for 7 days? Or did I cross Sohail by reporting him to the CPA which has asked me to report him to the local licensing authority, which I might do the next time he publishes his unethical pieces...

Have a nice day,

TNITC masadi

# 102 CA,

Ummahwallas have lots of oil money and could have owned all the studios and propagate their positives. Instead, they funded madrassas all over the world and the graduates are running around doing evil things.

bubba uncle, its called ownership. When you start buying up production companies and studios in the US, you as a paki, can also make movies lauding terrorism, throat slashings, burning of schools, etc. etc....you know shit pakis are known for. Until then...you can sit in Hmadim's godhi and watch Chandni Chowk to China

Re: # 97 Posted by hamidm2 on January 27, 2009 8:19:30 am

hamid mian,

the thing that surprises me the most is how bollywood is fanning the political fire. this despicable lot is nothing but mafiasos who are now collaborating with hollywood's warner brothers to take over the world wide entertainment business. it is frightening indeed. i hope the world realizes that hollywood and bollywood are coming together in an unholy alliance to dominate the world.

I thought I had posted this, but

arjun:

Slumdog Millionaire is out on DVD in late February. The way time's a flyin' you may not have to wait for long.

Arjun and hamidm,

There is bit of truth in what hamidm said - Americans do not like Indians that much - but for different reasons.

Indians and Chinese are considered future competitors in knowledge based economies while Arabs (and their lackeys) are just diverting USA attention and resources. This case is made by the following writer and he thinks that Chinese and Indians are building their economies (source of future wealth and power) and worst thing about it is that they do not allow us to hate them since they dont do stupid things like Ummahwalas are famous for. The message - longer term worry about these Asians :)

Ref: The war for wealth : the true story of globalization or why the flat world is broken / Gabor Steingart.

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hamid sahib

Slumdog Millionaire had a scene where a child was blinded by these thugs, most terrifying yet true depiction of how poor children are exploited and abused across the world. Next time u r in Pakistan on Eid, take a look at the kids begging for money, horrifying thought if they too are victims of such violent crimes.

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bubba mian,

....i would be more concerned if the dogs were protesting - unlike the hapless slum dwellers the dogs have powerful friends in the spca and the royal kennel society ........

Re: # 87

Dear sensitive one,

"obama didnt need to say that - the fact that he has retained his arab first name (barak = grace)"

Anyone with the rudimentary knowledge of Arabic would know meaning of Barak comes from baraka=blessings or barak=lightening.

Normally, I would avoid you but since no one is correcting your mistake, I find it duty bound to correct this grave injustice.

From Wiki:

Barack Obama's first name is the anglicized version of Baraka, which means 'blessing' in Kiswahili (aka Swahili), a language spoken by Senator Obama's Kenyan father.

The word "Barack" is shared among several languages. First, it is a word in the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages) Semitic family of languages. As such it mistakenly has been thought to have the root in Hebrew written as baruch, but since the word Barak in Hebrew exists independently, pronounced as Barak with no twisting of sounds, it is the true word from which any meaning should be taken. A version in Aramaic (berek), a version in Arabic (baraka). (See Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary, entries 1288-1294.) It also occurs as a loan word in non-Semitic languages that have been influenced by these Semitic languages, such as Kiswahili (the most widely spoken African language). As often happens, cognate words are similar in pronunciation. What appears in a later-appearing language may sound like something else in the earlier language. And in English we sometimes see words that are pronounced the same and even spelled the same, but that have very different meanings.

Baraka means 'blessing' in Kiswahili and comes from the Arabic spoken by the Omani Arabs that lived and traded along the coast of East Africa. Though it came to Kiswahili from Arabic it no longer has any sectarian connotations and is in common use amongst East Africans of all faiths. It is a common name for boys in Kenya and Tanzania.

Barack or Barak means 'lightning' in Hebrew. The name Barak is also mentioned in the Bible in the book of Judges. Barak was part of the story of the prophetess Deborah.