Bollywood

I remember hearing the dholak drum beats as I walked in, my nervousness melting away as I see some familiar faces. I may not have actually been in India, but it felt like my history, family, and passion: all mixed together like spices in a traditional dish and it's heavenly aftertaste. My first year ever celebrating Holi with a big group of people. The food, the colors, the dancing. It was all there. All right in front of me. First of all, the food was very delicious and traditional.…

These were a very multitude of films which appealed men and women a lot more this also method recognition involving Indian native Cinema and also Bollywood enhanced. It is said of which for an Indian native, two points tend to be of most value; an example may be cricket and other an example may be bollywood. Indian spend more price range with films and also improvement is usually straight relevant to money spent into it. Cinema is usually equally popular involving non-Indians…

One of the debates that emerged from the brutal and vastly covered in media, The Delhi Gang Rape (2012), was if Bollywood promoted rape culture through its item numbers critiquing the male gaze on women’s bodies and questioning whether the hyper-sexualization of Bollywood’s actresses served to normalize sexual harassment. The new trend being, the asexual, good Indian girl (who ultimately is coveted by the hero) constructed against the sexualized item-girl and one instantly thinks of the…

I've learned that a handful of chicken nuggets from the microwave doesn't count as a meal, that not everyone just drinks a glass of milk like I do, and that a real taco night isn't like any tacos I've ever had before. One of the biggest ways we bonded was over food. We took turns cooking in the kitchen. Each week I was trying new things that I had never heard of before. We always had vegetables. When I first came home to find one of my roommates shoes lined neatly outside her door, I thought it…

Originally I was not a film kid. I was not the child who grabbed a camera at five years old and had the passion for making films before I could comprehend what I wanted to do with my life. Theatre, I was in the theatre department and gradually realized that I preferred getting behind a camera than being in front of one. Being so new to cinematic arts, I was very tentative to share ideas from my sheer lack of experience compared to the rest. It was then that I realized that my theatre and on…

Everyone knows about the American movie business. Millions of dollars go into financing big movie projects just to entertain ourselves away from the real world, and millions of dollars are sent back in tickets to go see these films. Certainly, this business has been booming for the past one-hundred years, and we keep on fueling the fire. Movies aren’t just about entertainment only. Many films have become part of the American culture, and many films from the US show how Americans think and…

In Haider, the Bollywood version of Hamlet, Haider is emotionally violent to his mother (Ghazala) because she didn’t grieve appropriately, the loss of his father. He torments Ghazala with cruelty and verbal abuse because she found solace with another man after her husband…

Culture can be known as many different things; to me culture is the way of life for a group of people. There are numerous amounts of cultures across the globe. It is something that is passed on from generation to generation. It is the values of a person, a way they decide to do something. Identity works hand in hand with the idea of culture. Your culture shapes the way you behave, which then creates an identity. The way one inherits their rituals or morals may be different than someone else’s…

PETA’s advertising tools are based on the pretense that people like looking and talking about sexualized bodies (Rose, 109). Their theory is that the controversy over the images will either appeal to an audience or make the opposition talk about it, therefore inherently talking about animal rights. Although many people do talk about the PETA ads, the actual purpose for them gets lost in the controversy of the image. The contention with the advertisements is not just because they show naked women…

ancestral home and the world I lived in. My heritage was an anchor holding me down against the growing tide; I had two choices: to break free or go under. Struggling with this dilemma, I tried to be aware of what my heritage had to offer. As a Bollywood dance instructor, I had helped kids build discipline and individuality through dance. As a bilingual tutor, I taught young South Indian-American children the Indian language Telugu, while teaching immigrant children English. My heritage became…