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June 17, 2005
Bollywood Still Illegal in Pakistan
[UMMO Letters] The Pakistani government has reaffirmed its 40-year-old ban on screening Indian movies in the country, despite the current Bollywood infatuation with Indo-Pakistani reconciliation movies. It’s a good thing there’s such a thing as DesiTorrents to sneak your Bollywood fix past government censorship.
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Daily.greencine.com] GreenCine Daily: November 2003 Archives: As for the other trilogy wrapping this year, Peter Jackson sends an email to Harry Knowles to clear up "a muddle of half-truths" floating around out there. Yes, Christopher Lee's scene has been cut from Return of the King, but: "It was a film maker decision - nothing to do with the studio." The problem: The scene belonged originally in The Two Towers and in early cuts was delaying the kick-off of Return's actual story.
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[Mp.blogs.com] *michael parekh on IT*: Reading this also reminded me of similar criticism brought to bear against CNN last year, by Rebecca MacKinnon, a nine-year senior executive at CNN International, and now a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School (If you are an international news junkie like me, you can find her terrific blog here). Besides providing some very specific insight into how her experience at CNN International reinforced her notion that because CNN US's interest in providing an international news feed that catered to the American audience's assumed tastes and preferences, the credibility of CNN International with overseas audiences diminished, getting substituted by a growing array of non-American international news offerings.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Bollywood, Bollywood Rumors
Posted at June 17, 2005 07:16 AM
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