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Bollywood Confidential
By: Suketu Mehta

For this blog I found an article about Bollywood written by Suketu Mehta that was posted on someones blog. This article is and Indians point of view on Bollywood movies. Mehta says, "Why do I love Bollywood movies? To an Indian, that's like asking why we love our mothers; we don't have a choice. We were born of them." I think that is how most people feel, even in America, we love american movies because that is what we are born into and that is what we are used to and what we have grown to like. I thought this article was very interesting because I found out that a true Bollywood film has between 5 and 14 songs, no blockbuster special effects, just real people singing and dancing and showing respect for their mothers. At the end of this article that author closes by saying, " My shoes are Japanese. My pants English. On my head a red Russian cap. Still my heart is Indian."

Mehta, Suketu. "Bollywood Confidential." New York Times. 14th November, 2004. 1 March, 2009.
http://nirvana73.blogspot.com/2009/03/bollywood-confidential-article-by.html