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When I visited the little local library near my parents’ place when I was home recently, I came across a DVD I’d been wanting to watch for some time, the Merchant Ivory film Shakespeare Wallah. It was every bit as good as I had hoped it would be.

I’ve been writing some more extensive thoughts about the film at my new blog. Rather than reposting it all here, I will link you to those articles:

Star-Crossed Lovers
With the Bible in One Hand, and Shakespeare in the Other
Mute Testimonials
When Art is Overtaken By Popular Culture

The themes of postcolonialism and the interaction between traditional art and popular culture are nicely represented in the interplay between Shakespeare and Bollywood in the film.  It was a very enjoyable movie, and I think it will stay in my mind for a very long time.

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Indian movies are big business. I don’t understand Hindi, but I enjoy sitting down to watch a Bollywood film every now and then. The conventions of the genre can be very engaging, and it is fun to watch Desibaba reading the news, or a very traditional dance taking place on a beach, with the boy chasing the girl around a coconut tree.

Each country’s film industry has its own conventions and all. Bollywood has made such a successful industry built on clearly identifiable conventions. It also makes it accessible for “outsiders” to watch the films and be engaged by them. In fact, in my travels in China, I have found that there are a good number of Indian films and television series dubbed into Chinese. They are very much enjoyed in China, and I think the movies translate very well.

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