new column: "Bollywood Journal" on The Wall Street Journal's India Real Time blog
I am absolutely over the moon to announce that I am a new columnist for the India Real Time blog of The Wall Street Journal! My column, "Bollywood Journal," appears Tuesdays and covers...well, basically whatever filmi topic I want to write about in under 1,000 words that isn't gossip or movie reviews. Squeeeeeeeeee! The first one was published this morning and discusses a handful of foreign films that I think Bollywood should take a crack at.* Read it here and tell me what you think! Regular readers of this blog are probably already laughing at the idea of me trying to keep a piece to just 1,000 words. Editor Self has her work cut out for her, that's for sure.
Squeeeeeeeeee!
* After the column was published, a friend told me that one of the films I suggest actually has been given the filmi treatment but I hadn't found it in my research, which clearly wasn't as thorough as it should have been! Gah!
Squeeeeeeeeee!
* After the column was published, a friend told me that one of the films I suggest actually has been given the filmi treatment but I hadn't found it in my research, which clearly wasn't as thorough as it should have been! Gah!
Comments
/not jealous at all
Jenny
Filmigoris.net
I hope Beth's fans who do have ideas for Bolly-suitable remakes will post them on the WSJ site - it's an India site so in my version of reality, directors actors and producers -- the ones that haven't found this blog yet - will read your ideas and follow your suggestions and give us what we want!!
VIRGINIA KELLEY
Sound Of Music is given a few twists and Indianized as Parichay with Pran as Captain Von Trapp and Jeetendra as Maria, ha ha (one of the twists).
We should do a list of operas too, because those suckers have a lot of masala in them :)
By the way, my verification word is "squion"--perhaps squions are like photons of squee?
Sending many squions your way,
P.