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* End near for Bangladesh cinemas - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Saudis to succumb to Bollywood soon - 2 messages, 2 authors
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* Rab ne bana di jodi- English subtitles - 1 messages, 1 author
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* WATCH WORLD CLASS PAKI MADE LOLLYWOOD MOVIES - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: End near for Bangladesh cinemas
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.movies.local.indian/t/517577683d2363f7?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Dec 20 2008 6:36 pm
From: habshi@anony.com (habshi)
Its time Muslims acknowledged the fact that Islam destroys
culture . Why would Bollywood and regional film industries in India be
booming ? Reconvert now to glorious paganism.
excerpt dawn.com
Curtains closing on Bangladesh's cinemas
By Shafiq Alam
DHAKA: For 37 years, Taraknath Chowdhury has spent every day sitting
behind a booth in a corner of one of the Bangladeshi capital's most
famous cinemas.
This month, however, the 59-year-old will end his career when the
three-storey Star Cinema closes to make way for a high-rise apartment
block.
"It's best that way. Nobody comes to watch films any more," he said.
"The whole place stinks. Some nights there's just me in the lobby,
looking like a ghost in a haunted building."
The Star, in Dhaka's old quarter, a stone's throw from the Buriganga
River, was built in 1947 after the Indian subcontinent was
partitioned.
The 879-seat theatre was among the first in impoverished Bangladesh to
have air-conditioning and was a popular hangout for Dhaka's rich and
famous.
Back then, the city's population was only half a million but the
cinema hall had no trouble attracting the crowds.
"Every night at the Star was a great spectacle back in its heyday,"
said Chowdhury, who started his job in 1971 soon after Bangladesh
gained independence.
"It was brimming with crowds weeks after a film's opening night."
Now Dhaka is home to some 12 million people, and that figure grows
every day with new buildings thrown up to accommodate the recent
arrivals. But the interest in home-grown films is waning.
The Star's fate follows that of hundreds of cinemas throughout the
country that have been bulldozed to make way for residential buildings
and shopping malls.
The Bangladesh Cinema Hall Owners Association (BCHOA) says there are
now 730 theatres throughout the country compared to about double that
number four years ago.
An increase in violent scenes and dirty dancing forced the country's
interim army-backed authorities to clamp down on film content two
years ago.
As well as ordering a military-led taskforce to seek out studios
responsible for the "immoral" films and ban them from the industry,
the government also launched a talent hunt earlier this year for a new
breed of "clean" actors.
But BCHOA secretary Mia Alauddin says the results of those efforts
will come too late for buildings like the Star.
He says Dhaka's emerging middle class is more interested in watching
Hindi films from across the Indian border or pirated copies of western
new releases, freely available in the city for about a dollar a piece.
"We have our own film industry here – we call it Dhaliwood – but
Bollywood has emerged as the hub of the subcontinent's film business
in the past decade and Dhaka's has declined steeply," he says.
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TOPIC: Saudis to succumb to Bollywood soon
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Date: Sun, Dec 21 2008 11:47 am
From: habshi@anony.com (habshi)
Sad in a way. We need a group of reactionaries to rail
against, but good for the long suffering Saudis. Wonder if only men
are shown ,or if burqa clad women where the breasts and hips have been
hidden are allowed on screen as well.
A few years ago the Mullahs in Pakistan gave a fatwa that
women could not appear on tv as men get excited ! Another Mullah
responded against men appearing on tv as women get excited even more.
So in the end it was decided that Islam permitted only pre pubertal
children to appear on tv.
Such is the mental regression that Islam leads to..
excerpt
RIYADH (Reuters) - The head of Saudi Arabia's religious police
has eased his criticism of a return of cinema to the conservative
Muslim country saying he saw no harm in it as long as what is shown
complies with Islam.
Cinema made a low-key return in the Islamic kingdom after a three
decade ban, but a sharp reaction by Ibrahim al-Ghaith, the religious
police chief, showed efforts to relax tough religious laws face tough
opposition.
But Ghaith, the kingdom's second-most influential cleric, changed his
tone in favor of the moviegoing revival.
"We are not against having cinema if it shows the good and does not
violate Islamic law," al-Hayat newspaper quoted him on Sunday as
saying.
It was unclear why Ghaith had apparently changed his approach and the
religious police were not available for comment.
A locally produced comedy, "Menahi," premiered in two cultural centers
in Jeddah and Taif this month before mixed-gender audiences, earlier a
taboo in Saudi Arabia whose strict Islamic rules ban unrelated men and
women from mixing.
Ghaith, who heads the morals police -- called the Commission for
Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice -- demanded in remarks
carried on Saturday by Saudi newspapers that cinema remains banned,
calling it an evil the kingdom could do without.
"We have enough evil already," he was quoted as saying.
"Menahi," produced by billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's media
company Rotana, shows the comic escapades of a naive farmer earlier
played on television by popular Saudi actor Fayez al-Maliki.
Continued...
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Dec 21 2008 1:46 pm
From: fruitella
On Dec 21, 2:47 pm, hab...@anony.com (habshi) wrote:
> Sad in a way. We need a group of reactionaries to rail
Its a great idea.
Broadcast bollywood movies all across saudi arabia and the middle east.
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TOPIC: Rab ne bana di jodi- English subtitles
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.movies.local.indian/t/dc0dfef3b56c1b57?hl=en
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Date: Sun, Dec 21 2008 11:47 am
From: habshi@anony.com (habshi)
SRKs movies like Chak de India , are inspirational.
Here he teaches that even a boring person can change his hairstyle and
attire and personality and woo fun loving females.
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TOPIC: WATCH WORLD CLASS PAKI MADE LOLLYWOOD MOVIES
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Date: Sun, Dec 21 2008 3:00 pm
From: Diesel Engine
This year again, our film Industry has produced the worst kind of garbage on
celluloid for launch on the Eid day; the films include Payasa Badan, Hasina Goli
Maar, Hasina 302, Ziddi Badmash, Ghunda Punjab Daa and Ghundi Runn, all in
Punjabi. Is there a limit to insanity? -DR IRFAN ZAFAR, Islamabad, via e-mail,
December 15.
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