India Masala
Bollywood and culture in an emerging India
from India Insight:
Responsibility or censorship: why Bollywood should pick
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author, and not necessarily those of Thomson Reuters Corp.)
The mother and father of the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim were cremating their daughter's body around the same time I discovered Honey Singh, now lately known for his notorious song, "Ch**t," or "Cu*t." The song revolves around the singer's vision of satisfying a woman's lust, followed by beating her with a shoe and then moving on to other things.
While India convulses over its people's shameful treatment of women, its inadequate rape laws and questions about how to change an entire society, Singh's star has been rising in Bollywood. The industry apparently likes what it hears.
Whether the trouble he has encountered over his songs will stall that career remains to be seen, but it is safe to say that Bollywood has a record of promoting a dim, if adulatory view of women. But it is time the industry takes responsibility for what it perpetrates under the garb of "entertainment."
WIFW 2010: HIGHLIGHTS – Ranna Gill
Highlights from the Ranna Gill collection at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week 2010 in New Delhi. Actress Minissha Lamba walked the ramp for Gill.
WIFW 2010: INTERVIEW – Rahul Mishra
Designer Rahul Mishra speaks to Reuters on the sidelines of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week in New Delhi.
(Videos by Urvashi Sibal)
WIFW 2010: HIGHLIGHTS – Lecoanet Hemant
Highlights from the Lecoanet Hemant collection at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week 2010 in New Delhi.
WIFW 2010: HIGHLIGHTS – Abraham and Thakore
Highlights from the Abraham & Thakore collection at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week 2010 in New Delhi.
Delhi 6: Mehra’s mirror has many faces
At the end of the first half of “Delhi 6″, a friend messaged me to ask what I thought of the film.
“I like it so far,” I told him, “but I don’t see where this is going.”
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