The enchanter of Hell’s Kitchen
When I was first gifted a beautiful, metallic cherry-red, video-capable iPod, I copied only two clips over. One was an early, unfinished scene from Sita Sings the Blues. The other was Salman Rushdie bemoaning the state of literary criticism on the Colbert Report.
On this press swing, Rushdie seemed bemused and short-circuited by Colbert’s suddenly more insistent schtick. A man who works in long-form stories barely got a word in. He needs time to develop his anecdotes, he needs to open them up, let them breathe.
But it was amusing regardless. Colbert wondered aloud about Rushdie learning the basics of ob/gyn for his cameo in Then She Found Me. Did the patients get in the stirrup, point at the corner and say hey, isn’t that Salman Rushdie? (via SAJA)
on Friday, June 20th, 2008, 4:03 pm in Colbert Report, Humor, Literature, Salman Rushdie, TV, Video clips › 
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thanks so much for this interview Manish..it was amusing..Rushdie saying he is a blond actress all coy and appeared mellowed down and funny…I think colbert is such a high energy super talkitive guy that he barely gave Rushdie a chance to speak…
Anderson cooper and jon stewart interview..andy cooper was all giggling,coy,shy with jon stewart and I thought it was so contrary of his usual serious self..
same effect…probably comedians make writers and serious people nervous and all dumb..
that was interesting Rushdie playing a gynecologist..
I liked this interview he was intellectually interesting in this one..
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/books/jon%20snow%20interviews%20salman%20rushdie/2024547
Salman Rushdies more overrated than the Salbass switching machli.
He’d be a Ghuslakhan Hagdi who annoyyed a siah sir pagdi and went hiding.
Without any contribution, Unless you think bombays movie industry was worth something.
If you do I’d like to sell you some screenplays I wrote while performing hastmaithun