Cattle call
In Om Shanti Om’s ‘Dhoom Tana,’ filmmaker Farah Khan pays tribute to classic Bollywood dance sequences by digitally inserting new actors into old scenes:
The badminton dance is homage to ‘Dhal Gaya Din‘ from Humjoli (thanks, Jabberwock). Watching Jeetendra and Leena Chandavarkar prance around in badminton whites is like watching a Hardy Boy romance Nancy Drew. If you’ve got pointers to the other references, please leave ‘em in the comments.
Khan called in all favors for what surely must be the world’s biggest scene of movie star cameos, an exhausting gimmick for ‘Deewangi Deewangi’ in Om Shanti Om. Somewhere around the five-minute mark, Hindi film fans’ heads exploded. Wisely, the biggest rival stars stayed away.
Meanwhile, Variety big-ups the Hindi film industry for raking in more box office than Lions for Lambs with its two big Diwali releases. But the real question is, why are giant studio releases earning as little as a small indie flick, besides the difference in currency purchasing power?
on Monday, November 19th, 2007, 9:14 pm in Film, Video clips › 
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Yenna rascala mind it!!
OSO is a potboiler and Farah Khan hasn’t tried to sell it otherwise. Pulled in $21 million worldwide in 10 days -someone’s laughing all the way to the bank.
Is Lions for Lambs really a “small” movie?
It’s playing at my local movie theater (located in a midwestern town with population 14,000).
OSO and Saawariya aren’t playing there, of course.
So Lions gets that chunk of revenue, however small. Multiply that by all the midwestern towns in Flyover Country, and…