Bollywood

  It’s confirmed. Mira Nair is all set to push Tabu’s name for an We did not inherit the land from our forefathers- we are borrowing it from our children.
Oscar nomination this year. Says a source close to the project, “Mira is definitely going to project Asked what his secret was for lasting so long and being so successful as the president of Yale University, Dr. James R. Angell explained: “Grow antennae, not horns.”
Tabu as a potential best actress at the Oscars. Though Irrfan Khan is as good, if not better the Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
focus of Mira’s Oscar campaign for her masterly study of the Indian diaspora is likely to be I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .
predominantly Tabu.” Continues the source, “Irrfan is excellent. But he lacks what the Americans . . . it would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
are looking for in their Oscars recipe. Tabu is exotic, glamorous and mysterious. This is her first A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
real exposure to the Western audience. And they’re lapping up her utterly –butterly Bengali act, I won’t be able to do what I’m doing forever. There aren’t that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.
thick accent and all. On top of that she’s also wowing the westerners with her performance in Cheeni You can’t say civilizations don’t advance…in every war they kill you in a new way.
Kum.” Will Tabu be the first Indian actor to win an Oscar? “Why not?” says Mira’s creative Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
compatriot Deepa Mehta. “She’s amazingly good, on a par with any of her Western counterparts.” Six Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,—imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,—”Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of—the air!” Richter: German humorist & prose writer.
years ago Deepa had offered Tabu the lead in her richly lauded Water. The deal fell apart. A lot of Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
global cineastes feel Mira’s Namesake would do for Tabu what Deepa’s Water couldn’t. Tabu herself Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
remains supremely indifferent to recognition, at home or abroad.  

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