Reply to: White British actresses told to leave Bollywood

[Sysman]

Few Bollywood things I've seen look like that old Fred Astair/Ginger Rodgers guff. Awful.

But there are some good bits from Bollywood.

I bring you Who put the goat in there?

[shaunbhoy]

Not really if you're in charge of evaluation. One look at you and the boatload of Indian lovelies will no doubt mutiny and force the captain to return to Mumbai at double speed.

Nonsense. These people worship cattle for pete's sake. Someone as "beefy" as me would be like a magnet to them.
If I get word that they also have a penchant for Mr Bean, I'll PM you.
BTW..........don't say Mumbai........it is Bombay.....and always will be IMHO.

[Pondlife]

I used to watch Mahabharata whilst devouring chicken when I got home from the pub. Didn't have a scooby what was happening in it.

I blame the chicken.

[xoggoth]

Few Bollywood things I've seen look like that old Fred Astair/Ginger Rodgers guff. Awful.

[wurzel]

A considerable number of Indian people that I used to work with in the Middle East were acutely embarrassed by the whole Bollywood thing & basically thought it a crock of sh1t. Why, they wondered coudn't their country's film industry make proper films like they did in America instead of featuring wailing dance troupes on some remote Scottish Hillside.

[dang65]

She was American Indian, I mean like an Indian born and raised in the U.S.

Not a squaw, you mean? Shame. That's a word you don't hear much nowadays. Funny thing happened the other day. My kid's school sent home a letter asking for them to bring in Indian costumes next week because they were going to do an Indian dance in morning assembly. Cue my missus going into a massive rant about where the f*** are we supposed to get a Red Indian outfit from these days and what do the school think they are f****** playing at, etc etc. I had to point out that they've been studying India this term and that the letter said "an Indian costume", with no mention of Apache or Arapaho and no health and safety warnings about tomahawks. That could have been embarrassing. Instead, she just needed to find a white shirt and a few beads. Sorted. Bring back Red Indians and squaws though I say.

[Pondlife]

Well that's as maybe..........but what about the exchange plan? Still a flyer?

If you cover travel and expenses I'll happily do a reccy for you.

[sasguru]

Well that's as maybe..........but what about the exchange plan? Still a flyer?

Not really if you're in charge of evaluation. One look at you and the boatload of Indian lovelies will no doubt mutiny and force the captain to return to Mumbai at double speed.

[ChimpMaster]

It's an Anglicised version of the Marathi name Thakre. .....

I once dated a girl with surname Thakrar. She was American Indian, I mean like an Indian born and raised in the U.S.

B**ch.

[shaunbhoy]

It's an Anglicised version of the Marathi name Thakre. This guy's uncle is Bal Thackeray (a far-right loony), who changed his name to resemble the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.

Basically, the story is about nutters rather than any actual Indian policy - same as stories about the BNP "banning curry", or whatever.

Well that's as maybe..........but what about the exchange plan? Still a flyer?

[dang65]

Hmmm Raj Thackeray - sounds very Indian - like being called David Atwal

It's an Anglicised version of the Marathi name Thakre. This guy's uncle is Bal Thackeray (a far-right loony), who changed his name to resemble the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.

Basically, the story is about nutters rather than any actual Indian policy - same as stories about the BNP "banning curry", or whatever.

[fullyautomatix]

The news items seems like something straight out of "the onion".

I will take the bait and give a serious answer. The politician in question, has been sent to jail many times for instigating hatred. He is better off dead than alive and has done nothing but arouse religious hatred using the many goons he employs. His point of view is shared only among his few thousand followers and is in no way representative of sentiments across the city.

[shaunbhoy]

I am sensing an opportunity here. Why not instigate some form of exchange scheme? We can swap a load of fit Indian birds for a list comprising, but not confined to, the following :-

Shami Chakrabarti
Rochdale Swamp Donkey
Karen Matthews (of Shannon fame)
Heather Mills
Germaine Greer
Cherie Blair
Jacqui Smith
Harriet Harman
Dawn Primarolo
Zohra Moosa
Clare Short
Hazel Blears
Baroness Scotland
Tessa Jowell
Yvette Cooper
Beverley Hughes
Margaret Beckett
Patricia Hewitt

etc........

Feel free to add any other suitable "exchangees".

And I am quite prepared to "vet the credentials" of the boatload of Shilpa Shetty lookalikes that come over here to take their places.......
And for NO FEE, just expenses. That is the kind of altruistic guy I am!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Hmmm Raj Thackeray - sounds very Indian - like being called David Atwal

[Churchill]

Well, the government keeps saying that UK workers need to emulate India to keep jobs; soooooooooooo.....

That bird on "Dancing on Ice" t'other week did a bloody good job!

Girly had it on, I wasn't watching it, honest

I even refrained from making the comment "Bloody hell, she looks just like a ****!" - because she looked like an Indian, not a ****!