tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post6988543139407738580..comments2024-03-19T09:03:49.770+05:30Comments on Shobhaa De: Reality check for Dev PatelShobhaa Dehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05610708004901279105noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-76654767882988827252010-09-07T16:10:41.797+05:302010-09-07T16:10:41.797+05:30Shobhaa at Sixty by Shobhaa De was just the kind...<a href="http://www.uread.com/book/shobhaa-at-sixty-shobhaa-de/9789380480497" rel="nofollow"> Shobhaa at Sixty by Shobhaa De </a> was just the kind of book I was looking for my wife at our 25th marriage anniversary.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00145972389542047538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-6244535844884975862010-08-21T23:43:21.947+05:302010-08-21T23:43:21.947+05:30Before a month forbes listed her as the 2nd most w...Before a month forbes listed her as the 2nd most wanted minority actress in holly behind zoe saldana.Do u think a popular cosmetic brand like loreal would make her as there international brand ambassador if she is avg?.. pinto commercials are shown in all the countries in the world except for racist india<br /><br />Joseph<br />GetMeBest.com<br /><br />Tell us what you want. We will search and exactly meet your need for FREE.<br /><br />PAY NO commission, NO service charge, NO brokerage & NO fees @ GetMeBest.com for any Real Estate and Bank Loan needs<br /> <br />Real Estate [Residential & CommerciaL] for Buy, Rent & Lease. Bank Loans:- Car Loans, Home LOans, Personal Loans & other loans.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00300523041432544135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-76033095490382190832010-08-20T17:53:43.391+05:302010-08-20T17:53:43.391+05:30Sooper post! I just wish Dev Patel gets to read th...Sooper post! I just wish Dev Patel gets to read this. :DMangoManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03077416355941220651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-61134859184395987052010-08-12T18:44:06.186+05:302010-08-12T18:44:06.186+05:30And forgot to add to the debate above - I think Fr...And forgot to add to the debate above - I think Freida is prettyThe Guy Next Doorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02896534228916398192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-14417935869200716642010-08-12T16:59:16.741+05:302010-08-12T16:59:16.741+05:30@Lolita and Adman.....very mature looser's.......@Lolita and Adman.....very mature looser's.....i do not want to waste my energy on dolts like u who dnt even knw how to talk...Akshayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16739136667927957501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-66192332397866611402010-08-12T13:14:20.024+05:302010-08-12T13:14:20.024+05:30@Emmanuelle beart......good going mate..ur apt cho...@Emmanuelle beart......good going mate..ur apt choice of words reflects ur maturity...1stly i feel sorry for your choice...2ndly what sells now at the moment (no matter how avg. he/she might look) will b the face of products no matter wat...plus if u invest in a multi million dollar project will u b wise enough to degrade the people u take for it...think abt it u say he said she looks stunning??..haha..stunning lookin chick to play a slumgirl..i think he was being more sarcastic...oh ya n next time u commnet have some respect for others opinions...i was jus agreeing with some1 abt wat i think abt her...ur wise response was never required....so u try not to b so retarded the next time...Akshayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16739136667927957501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-90131895142490095272010-08-12T11:44:35.639+05:302010-08-12T11:44:35.639+05:30dev might be on the world map. but he had no contr...dev might be on the world map. but he had no contribution to it per se, slumdog was a director's and a child artists' phillim. and it also belonged to rasul and rahman and thoda thoda to freida. see how beautifully the others managed their climb in hollywood. ekdam smooth sail. <br /><br />and this confused videshi export is trying to play the bollywood trick... poor patel doesnt know that such controversies only work in bollywood. hollywood mein nahi. it is not wrong that he raises his concerns, just that, he has to be smart enough to bake the cake, and eat it too, with the cherry.<br /><br />having said that, i feel he is exactly what you called him - Bachha. And in the long run, he will learn the ropes and do summersaults. <br /><br />i am so happy that the one film wonder has so many supporters. look at the comments.. WOW. <br /><br />even i appreciate his braveness, just that he has to be little smarter in using his firebrandness in a proper way that he lagaaos vaat and doesnt get marooed laath. <br /><br />i know what hollywood will be telling to him.. in parsee tone.. <br /><br />kaiko kaali peeli bom maarta hai..Harishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12609011423304441643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-55587882298124303512010-08-12T10:32:17.073+05:302010-08-12T10:32:17.073+05:30@ppl concerned
u were born in india and still say ...@ppl concerned<br />u were born in india and still say things abt it. leave freida and evrythng else aside, u shud be ashamed of urself. peace out !!!nishanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07706096910613504576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-6537813959302214232010-08-11T20:57:27.951+05:302010-08-11T20:57:27.951+05:30Lolita:well said gurl...one of my asian frnd told ...Lolita:well said gurl...one of my asian frnd told me about how much indians worship fair skin ppl..but wat more can u expect from white ass lickers alias slumdogs?..pinto should feel happy tat she is not in tat racist country anymoreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-67463433448562772692010-08-11T20:00:40.075+05:302010-08-11T20:00:40.075+05:30@Lolita-definitely you are not Indian. Your filthy...@Lolita-definitely you are not Indian. Your filthy language shows your culture ! We Indians are tolerant enough even to publish your rant irrespective your colour. But definitely you have the audacity to write about us in our own sites. Our opinion about Freida or any other Indian is our business. But you better mind your language when you write about us. Why don't you get out & pour your dirt in some of your own sites instead of littering other people's places ?<br />@other Indians-why do we allow these people to come to an Indian website & write filth about us ? Or is it true what they write - that we don't have any shame-or self respect that we will take all their shit because they are white ?Lathahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10391580973252067189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-53430757324193748162010-08-11T19:47:59.188+05:302010-08-11T19:47:59.188+05:30@akshay:u sound like a jealous retard.If pinto is ...@akshay:u sound like a jealous retard.If pinto is n't attractive why would loreal chose her as there international brand ambassador?..Danny boyle in his interview has said tat he has chosen freida for her stunning looks.Except for freida all the other indians look worst than a slumdog.we have better taste than backward indian white wannabes like u.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-12374155458327510222010-08-11T17:45:07.207+05:302010-08-11T17:45:07.207+05:30Good he received a reality check..after living in ...Good he received a reality check..after living in Europe for almsot 4 years now, I have come to realise that its not only Films that are restricted to "goras" but also jobs. But i guess that the way the cookie crumbles..<br /><br />@ Divya Virmani...i soo agree with you any1 who thinks Frieda Pinto looks good need some kind of shock to jolt them back to realtiy...why do ppl keep 4getting that she was chosen to play the older slumgirl..i mean has any1 tried to imagine wat the casting director must hav had in his/her mind at that point of time...Akshayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16739136667927957501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-26335449329326358892010-08-11T10:15:52.435+05:302010-08-11T10:15:52.435+05:30Please. A simple walk around, say, Bandra, will th...Please. A simple walk around, say, Bandra, will throw up hundreds of young people like Frieda and Dev. For that matter, even better than them. They were just at the right place at the right time.<br /><br />That they should cause so many people to get nasty with each other on this blog, is amazing. <br /><br />Leave them alone.Ugich Konitarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15901335427613806798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-46566333705438639052010-08-11T08:39:04.354+05:302010-08-11T08:39:04.354+05:30@emmanuelle beart:Indians are self hating white wa...@emmanuelle beart:Indians are self hating white wannabes.They try so hard to make there black skin look white by wearing to tons of white makeup.ppl here hate freida only because of her dark skin.If u visit sites like just jared or eonline u would know wat i meanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-82214576212178116722010-08-11T08:21:12.762+05:302010-08-11T08:21:12.762+05:30Why do we Indians think that we hae "arrived&...Why do we Indians think that we hae "arrived" only when Hollywood acknowledges us? It is high time we let go of that subtle inferiority complex. <br />South Indian heroines feel superior when they work in Hindi cinema..and Hindi cinema ppl think that they are superior after working with the gora.... As an entire country , we definitely need a huge change of mindset.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-5023080113408890442010-08-11T04:51:06.152+05:302010-08-11T04:51:06.152+05:30@latha:If u think im racist then u should read the...@latha:If u think im racist then u should read the horrible racist comments pinto gets from ur fellow country ppl in Just jared.Actually some went to the level of saying she is too dark to represent india.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-67973451772547931992010-08-11T02:43:41.321+05:302010-08-11T02:43:41.321+05:30not true take penelope cruz her bf...javier bardem...not true take penelope cruz her bf...javier bardem(i think), these spanish/latin actors retain their accent and act in gr8 movies, act well and win awards too.<br />Freida will not do well becuz i can tell shes not a good actress. Dev patel is not attractive to me, he needs to build his muscles and stuff if he doesnot want to do the geeky boy roles.<br />But lets get real, most Indians i meet here are geeks, we come here to study and work in non glamorous fields. Plus we are only .6% of the population. There is a huge latin and afro american population here to watch these guys. <br />Dev Patel does not stand half the chance say denzel washington stands....so there Americans are not racist, it is just simple business.kakakahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16466491623842204064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-61777099901080280902010-08-11T02:13:55.909+05:302010-08-11T02:13:55.909+05:30'we must respect our top stars for not crawlin...'we must respect our top stars for not crawling all the way to Hollywood, begging for breaks. If Hollywood has nothing substantial to offer SRK, Bachchan, Salman and Aamir - it is Hollywood's loss.'<br />Bravo, Shobhaa, this is why I come to your blog. You say it just like it is.<br />I think there are many dhobhi ka kuththas here who are ashamed to be Indians & will never be accepted as Americans. Even if they get the citizenship, they are always American Indians. You can't blame the Americans. We don't look like one among them. Why would we want to ?<br />@krunal 'first of all i have zero respect for freida who ditched out the guy who she was engaged to and who was financing her modelling profession. i wish she falls flat on her face.' Me too.<br />@others, I don't care what the western world thinks of Kareena & Katrina. We have our own taste & it is fine that they are pleasing to our eyes. Who cares what other people think of them ?<br />@Emmanuelle beart- 'she is the only attractive indian i have seen in my life....when in reality she looks more like latina than indian.' That says it all. You like Freida 'cause she doesn't look Indian - looks latino with high cheek bones. fine. (Look who is racist). Good that you are frank. Well our standards of judging beauty is different. We also like people with a little chubby cheeks who look very much Indian. We need not adhere to the western standards & like Indians who look like somebody else. That doesn't mean we are blind, okay ?<br />And we are supposed to be jealous 'cause she earns a lot. Well you'd be disappointed to note that we are not. We are not obsessed with money. There are other things like character, trustworthiness....leave it. You will not understand.<br />@Lolita (nice name)..'ur copycat bolly directors could never make a masterpiece like slumdog....................'<br />hahaha. I'm sure you haven't seen a single malayalam film. Slumdog is a combination of 2 or 3 malayalam films. But of course, even if we know the truth, our worship for everything white will tie our tongues from admitting it. One needs guts like that of Shobhaa De to tell the truth as it is.<br />Maybe the dark skinned malayalys copied Slumdog years before it was made !Lathahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10391580973252067189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-71913574176300640382010-08-11T02:09:46.021+05:302010-08-11T02:09:46.021+05:30to the lovely "The Panorama". your comme...to the lovely "The Panorama". your comment was so pleasing and it really made me smile from the heart. wish there were more people like you in this world who were positive and very forward and keeping with the times. I have always argued the fact that us indians and many of us once colonised by the british happily speak the "english" language, but when it comes to being part of films that are made in that very same language , our own countrymen rise up against us saying that we are being stupid dreaming about being part of those films. when there are so many indians living in every part of the world and not just india , why cant we be represented approproately in western films as well which honestly a lot of indians living in india DO watchUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13118018932106923061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-28108294680378039752010-08-11T00:12:16.238+05:302010-08-11T00:12:16.238+05:30Perhaps he should seek a few words of advice from ...Perhaps he should seek a few words of advice from a certain Mr. Kal Penn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal_Penn).Sidhusaahebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08428201823375343016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-16869465789918454502010-08-10T22:43:06.931+05:302010-08-10T22:43:06.931+05:30Dev Patel is very young. The young say many things...Dev Patel is very young. The young say many things they regret later when life actually does bite them in the arse. I am still learning that. OW! OW!<br /><br />Dev Patel got his soundbite in. Some casting director will read his soundbite and put a post-it marker on his file before putting it away in thier "ethnic look actor" filing cabinet. Not bad really. Atleast his folder will be found more easily when the filing cabinet is opened. As a strategy his little outburst may not exactly backfire.<br /><br />Now he will need to put his head down and do all the roles of cabdrivers and gas station attendants and mideastern terrorists that come his way until he is type-cast enough to be the "go to" guy for all ethnic roles. A working actor without the ego of instant stardom is the best kind of actor. That is the only kind of actor who has a rats chance of becoming anything at all in Hollywood. Come middle age perhaps he will get his breakthrough role where he gets to be more than a pretty boy. Think Harrison Ford not Tom Cruise!<br /><br />Lets face it, Dev Patel is never going to look like or be convincing as a pretty boy in his underwear (Tim Cruise and various vampires) which is what very young breakthough stars usually have to be. Its simple economics yaar. <br /><br />It is not racism, it not jewish lobby, its not white fatcats. It is the same reason that South male actors are not cast as Hindi Movie heros. Most times Southern male stars simply dont look like or speak like the people buying the majority of the tickets. It is economics. Shitty and unfair but there it is.<br /><br />And no, Amitabh, Aamir, SRK etc would never have been successful as young actors in Hollywood either. And now in middle age they just too complacent. too stylised and too full of themselves to take on the real acting challenges that Hollywood demands. They will never again have the abject shamlessness that acting demands.<br /><br />It takes a not-recently-so-successful actor like Anil Kapoor to go forth and work in the west like he has nothing to lose. He wins I think by sheer dint of not letting his ego precede him.<br /><br />Unfortunately our cultural baggage does not include appreciating the learning experience there is in failure and sheer persistance. Dev will be wise to remember that.<br /><br />As for Frieda. I think she is lovely and she is very personable and articulate ... totally works for western sensibilities.Another Kiran In NYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15949641865013106368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-43660506466104123022010-08-10T21:58:58.684+05:302010-08-10T21:58:58.684+05:30@adman:Omg are indians blind?..she is the only att...@adman:Omg are indians blind?..she is the only attractive indian i have seen in my life.Its funny reading comment like she is avg looking/typical indian girl (in just jared) when in reality she looks more like latina than indian.Even in her next few films she is playing the role of latin girl.Indians should obviously be jealous of her considering the fact that she earns much more than what 85% indians could never think of earning even if they work for 100 years.yep according to Forbes pinto's earning from 2009- july 2010 is $4 million.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-80882935152531633732010-08-10T21:06:19.856+05:302010-08-10T21:06:19.856+05:30I think it was brave of Dev Patel to come out with...I think it was brave of Dev Patel to come out with his statements. Just because the great Omar Sharif had to get a regular job after Hollywood, that makes it ok to cast Asian actors in stereotyped roles? Sorry,ms De, I don't agree. Hollywood needs to change with the times. I mean, America elected Barack Obama to symbolise change, so why should we accept such attitudes as are prevalent in Hollywood? <br />Dev is right about racism. Please don't mock the poor boy, ms De. He is talented and deserves to be treated better.The Panoramahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919885693479046926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-51401672190784472312010-08-10T20:58:00.691+05:302010-08-10T20:58:00.691+05:30As an non indian(french) fan of FP I have noticed ...As an non indian(french) fan of FP I have noticed many indians say hateful things about her and cite aishwarya and karina as more beautiful.I looked up to these two ladies and yes aishwarya is beautiful but she wears too much of makeup.I Prefer FP's high cheekbone and lively face.karina on the other hand is no beauty.she has huge face and big head and very masculine jaws. Look at perfect symmetry of freida's face.All features are nice balanced and her cheekbones are to die for.Her is figure is great too and to top it off she has that million dollar smile.Indians should be proud of herAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-49271946731174947942010-08-10T20:18:41.573+05:302010-08-10T20:18:41.573+05:30@krunal:lol why would she do a crappy indian films...@krunal:lol why would she do a crappy indian films when best directors in holly are casting her for there films?..ur copycat bolly directors could never make a masterpiece like slumdog....................@divya:Im sure americans have better taste than fair skin obsessed indians like u. pinto has looks which will be appreciated in US.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com