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2006-08-06 India-Pakistan

Ban on Indian TV channels strains Quetta's cable business

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How is "Pakistani culture" different to Indian Muslim culture?

Especially since many of the biggest bollywood stars are muslim?

King of Bollywood
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1837317,00.html

In India, Shah Rukh Khan is so famous he can't leave home without half a dozen minders. In the UK, he sells out Wembley in minutes. Emine Saner meets the world's biggest film star

In this country, few people outside Asian communities and Bollywood fans have heard of him (he sells out Wembley arena in minutes when he comes here to perform song-and-dance routines from his films).

Shah Rukh Khan (also known as "King Khan") has been in more than 50 Hindi films and has won 13 Filmfare awards, regarded as the "Bollywood Oscars". He is the biggest star in Hindi cinema and this means billions of fans (Bollywood has a global audience of 3.6 billion; Hollywood has 2.5 billion).

In India, where he lives with his wife and two children in Mumbai, he can't leave his house without six bodyguards (the hysteria that follows him makes Beatle-mania look like a librarians' convention).

Posted by john 2006-08-06 10:09|| 2006-08-06 10:09|| Front Page Top

#2 They obviously have a French cultural attache advising them on how to become more isolationist, xenophobic, and ignorant of other cultures.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-06 13:59|| 2006-08-06 13:59|| Front Page Top

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