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Feb 19, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) MTV Iggy has just release more parts of their fascinating exclusive informal Shahrukh Khan - Kajol video interview as SRK and Kajol were riding around a cab in New York City.

This is Kajol's first trip to New York, and Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol managed to give their bodyguards a slip for a little while, and SRK took it upon himself to show Kajol around the city that never sleeps at night. While being driven around by a hardened New York cab driver, a very informal and casual conversation with the cab driver was recorded by MTV Iggy, who are publishing segments of that wonderful footage in parts. SRK and Kajol are seen in very normal and casual settings, very uncommon for superstars of their stature.

According to reports, their movie "My Name Is Khan" (Blu-Ray DVD) which is in theaters across the globe presently has already broken box-office records set only  few weeks ago by the previous all-time blockbuster - Amir Khan's "3 Idiots". Latest numbers pouring in indicate as much as over $8 million overseas in just the first week.

"My Name Is Khan" is clearly a movie made on somewhat dubious interpretation of what the United States is all about, especially in the post 9-11 era. A classic Bollywood entertainer, the film does poorely in trying to depict serious issues, though it tries hard. Film reviewer Mark Jenkins writes in an excellent review on NPR, "The film was shot partially in the U.S., but also in India, and some scenes meant to be the former are clearly the latter. Similar problems dog the script, which can be ingenious, yet is often detached from American reality ... The story includes barely veiled references to such recent U.S. infamies as Abu Ghraib and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, handled in a way that suggests only superficial knowledge of them. The movie is most jarringly clueless when depicting African-American Southerners, who seem modeled on minstrel-show stereotypes."

Watch the next part of the interview in the embedded video from MTV Iggy online below. Watch more videos of this interview at MTV Iggy.

 

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Soutik Singha - one of the founders of Washington Bangla Radio- attended the premiere of Raj Basu's Piyalir Password (2009) Bengali Movie and writes about how he likes what he saw.

Raj Basu - our beloved Raju-da - was a hero who set out with great enthusiasm to pursue his dreams. In his very essence a risk-taker - which is partly responsible for his spectacular success at a very young age, Raju-da - an Engineering graduate from Jadavpur University with a passion for film-making, re-defined boundaries in Bengali cinema in his own unique ways.

Some say the great powers above need good people and sometimes cut short their stay on Earth to pull them over, as in the case of Raj Basu. Needless to say, Raju-da, you will live on as an inspiration to follow one's dreams in the hearts of a whole generation of Bengalees, including myself. You were, are, and will be a personal hero of mine - you have taught us what is really important and what is not.

Here is Raj Basu speaking about his ground-breaking movie Piyalir Password, recorded on Mar 19, 2009. Piyalir Password is the 3rd film by Raj Basu, after Aaghat (1997) and Wings of Hope (2001).

By Supratim Sanyal

Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone (Buy the book online ) may not be called a literary masterpiece, but it sure is entertaining with its guffaws and its Indianized English. I read the book a while back, and I was highly impressed by the author's straightforward and vitriolic views about the sagacious education system. Bhagat had introduced Ryan Oberoi to play the role of the rebel, an anarchist who wanted to do away with the grumpy system of education  prevailing in India. Ryan was never his protagonist; he simply played the second fiddle in the book. It was Hari, the mundane narrator of the book who was the hero. But things turned topsy-turvy when Bollywood walked into the scene to dramatize the already dramatic story of Five Point Someone.  And then when in the book everything went happily ever after with the three idiots, namely Ryan, Hari, and Alok, Bollywood begot its own idiots Farhaan (R. Madhavan), Raju (Sharmaan Joshi) and Rancho (Aamir Khan)the great for its new cinematic endeavor 3 Idiots .