Monday, April 19, 2004

From Breezy Bollywood, Films Anything but V�rit�

The New York Times > Movies > Critic's Notebook: "Rajiv Menon's 'I Have Found It,' a movie that puts a South Indian spin on Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility,' an aspiring filmmaker named Manohar, like so many of his counterparts around the world, struggles to direct his first feature according to his own vision.

His idea � a thriller called 'Speed' in which a fast-moving train has been rigged with a bomb � may not sound very original, but it strikes his producers, stars and technical advisers as impossibly outr�, and they offer suggestions to make it more palatable to the audience. There has to be a mother, they insist, there has to be a wedding, and above all there have to be songs. 'We are making a Tamil movie,' one of these helpful industry hacks explains, and such a project is unthinkable without those elements."

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