Lost in Translation
It's funny how you can speak the same language as someone, yet still have no idea what they're talking about. I followed a link to a very short English-language article on the Indian movie website Filmi Tadka because the headline interested me: " Shahrukh Khan - Don't Mix Religion with Politics ." Reading the article, I learned that at the distinguished India Today Conclave , "SRK expressed his concerns about the politicization of Mumbai by saying that Indian cinema is heading from Mumbai to Melrose. And though he would have preferred the transition as Bombay to Beverly Hills he thinks that that kind of alliteration is not allowed to Muslim actors." Huh? I know all those words, but because of my own ignorance, I don't have the political or cultural context needed to understand them. First, what's he referring to, exactly, when he talks about the politicization of Mumbai, and what does that have to do with global cinema and Hollywood? Secon