Bollywood

Hijri’s book covers the identity shapers of second generation South Asians growing up in Canada. These identity shapers include the influence of Bollywood, Canadian culture, and the desire to retain one’s religion. Her book examines how South Asian youth deal with pressures from both Canada and their homeland to either maintain their heritage or acculturate. This book is relevant to my paper as it examines how gender plays a role in creating identity conflict. It depicts how youth must decide…

For Cowie, process of identification through fantasy is not a form of distortion but expressions of deep wishes. It is from two students of Jacques Lacan- Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis (Laplanche and Pontalis, 1986) that Cowie got the inspiration for her formulation on ‘fantasy’. Fantasies do not entail the subject to obtain the desired object but through imagination puts oneself in a situation, a scene where the subject can chart out the possibilities of pleasure. Cowie depends…

Even the breadwinner of Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan, until this day refuses to film any kiss scene. The omission of such scenes are unique to true Bollywood films. As Indians migrate to other regions, this attitude is slowly disintegrating. In Monsoon Wedding, Aditi has an affair with a married man and they are caught kissing passionately in an intimate position by the police. Aditi’s cousins, Rahul and Ayesha, are also shown to be sexually attracted to each other. In Bollywood, women are not…

Learning about cultures can be exciting and strange, all at the same time. It is interesting to see how someone’s lifestyle can differ so greatly from yours, but new experiences can be daunting. As an American born Chinese, almost all of my experiences have stemmed from my Chinese heritage. This project really opened my eyes in terms of other cultures, and what my close friends encounter every day. The first culture I learned about was the Bengali culture. Bangladesh is a country in South…

Interpreting the World Through Globalization Think back to time when the attacks on 9/11 occurred at the world trade center. How was everyone affect around the world? What impact did globalization have on this tragic event? In order to understand globalization we have to define it. According the Global Issues, Local Arguments globalization book they define globalization as the increasing interconnectedness of all parts of the world in terms of communication, trade, business, politics, and…

after its release. 2. Dostana (2008) was one of the breaks through movies which portrayed homosexuality in a movie under a huge banner. Close on the heels of fashion, this movie presented the big stars of Bollywood who pretends to be homosexuals. 3. Fashion (2008) again had mainstream Bollywood stars in the movie and portrayed a homosexual fashion designer who ends up in a marriage of convenience with a woman due to the various societal constraints and…

The 2001 Bollywood film Asoka is a rendition of King Asoka Maurya’s legacy. Bindusara Asoka’s father is about to renounce the throne to his successor. In this depiction, Asoka is seen to be very skillful and fierce in martial arts. He leads his troops in battle and even though he and his men were outnumbered. Asoka comes home a hero, which angers his half-brother Susima who wants Asoka dead and there is press to be seated at their father’s throne. Susima had ordered to make Asoka battle with…

have their own story in the film. The central story is about a preparing for a chaotic and expensive arranged wedding where the bride has a secret. There are also a smitten event planner, an envious servant and a sad and angry cousin. This is a Bollywood movie and it is extremely different from what I´m used to. This is a great movie, due to everything happening at the same time, in other…

I’ve been dancing since the age of three and was drawn to the idea of joining the university’s Bollywood Fusion team not only as a way to keep dancing, but as a way to immerse myself in a new challenge focusing on styles I’ve never danced before. What I didn't realize upon getting accepted was that this team would not only challenge me as a dancer,…

It is not by chance this problem exists in rock music. Fisher wrote extensively about these types of problems in his essay. Fisher noted that rock challenges the traditional thinking about an objective aesthetic value, and that its creation present problems for the question of authenticity in music.1 Fisher proposes that recorded music has its own separate ontology that must be taken into account, if we are to talk about authenticity issues in music. Recordings have specific sound events that…