Will Bollywood gender bias ever end? A great piece to celebrate Women's Day.
"Bollywood isn’t a hospitable place for a woman director. On International Women’s Day, can the mandarins of the Mumbai movie industry place their hands on their hearts and vouch that they are doing their best mete out justice to members of the fairer sex seeking a toehold in the industry as independent directors? On the evidence available, they’d only be lying if they made any such claims.
A stark contrast is provided by the fact that most Indian filmmakers who are making waves on the global stage are women – Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta and Gurinder Chadha. They have, of late achieved critical applause and commercial success in equal measure. But their international breakthroughs haven’t exactly come to the aid of the filmmakers’ sorority back in India..."

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Aussies say Salaam Namaste
Australian PM encourages Bollywood to keep shooting in Australia after recent Salaam Namaste shooting there set the cash-registers ringing.
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Courtesy the Hindustan Time:

"Bollywood is much talked about and reported in Australia. It has helped bring the two countries closer," Howard said after being introduced to leading Indian filmmaker Yash Chopra, the man who directed Salaam Namaste."

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BOLLYWOOD DOWNLOADABLE
Online is where we want to be - All Bolly movies to be easily downloadable soon. Read more

ALSO IN THE NEWS
Alan Greenspan has done what any person who is notorious for expressing his thoughts in a very complex manner should do - he has written a memoir. And apparently the market is lapping it up!
Renowned as the man who held the US economy up during the tech boom and then tried to steer it through the turmoil after the tech bubble burst in 2000, the events post 9/11 and 1987, Alan Greenspan, has lately been famous for his Fed rate maneuvers.

"A quiet man who eschewed the spotlight, Mr Greenspan was well known for his long and often turgid speeches.
He once commented: "If you think you understood me, it's because I misspoke."

Read at the BBC
"Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve and a man whose words moved markets, has sold the rights to his memoirs to Penguin..."