Hollywood, Pakistan & Hindi films
28.04.14
It has been a week of
national and international headlines. Superhero actor Andrew Garfield, all set to essay Spiderman yet
again was in Singapore recently to promote The
Amazing Spiderman 2 along with girlfriend Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx, when
he surprised the Indian press by talking about actor Irrfan Khan who was part
of Garefield’s earlier Spiderman flick. Apparently Garefield saw Lunchbox and was surprised that all
Bollywood films are not song and dance. Surely they are not, Mr Garfield, just
as all Hollywood films are not about Spiderman
even if they are released in multiple national languages like Hindi, Tamil and
Telugu.
For years, Pakistan
has remained obsessed with Amitabh Bachchan and eager to invite him to their
country but it never happened. Years passed by and Pakistanis grew up on
Bachchan films even when Indian films were banned in their country. Every time
a new release came of Bachchan, there were talks of it being premiered in
Lahore and Karachi but even that remained a dream. Now for the first time,
Amitabh Bachchan’s Bhoothnath Returns is releasing in India and Pakistan
simultaneously! There are talks about him being invited there for a seminar and
if that happens, it will be the first for Pakistan and Bachchan!
Bhawana Somaaya /
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