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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road
Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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It's a long away since 'Da Vincy Code'. A big hulla- bulla for nothing at
all.
Christianity hasn't been shaken out of its roots yet.
I did miss a chance to see it, though.
And I don't think Scarlet Keeling will come back for and encorre.
It would be fun to see how much they are gonna pack into it. the truth, I
mean
Selma, you couldn't be more right.
fc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Insensitivity of Bollywood.
--- Averthan D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Public
pressure should be brought to bear on the director
who is planning to
exploit the situation merely to make money by
producing a film which will be
both gross and vile.
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I am tired and fed-up with democracy being waylaid at
every turn by threatening "public pressure", in Goa.
Tell me Averthan, how do you know that this director
is going to make a film "which will be both gross and
vile?" Has a draft script been forwarded for your
perusal? Has the producer asked you to put up money
for this project? Has he approached you for
distribution rights?
No, he is making a film with his own financing.
However vulgar, tawdry, exploitative or insensitive
this project is, he has the right to make a film in
India, a secular democracy. There is a censor board
that will scrutinize the appropriateness of this film.
Then, there is your individual choice to go and see it
or not. This is how democracies operate. Not by
citizens bearing pressure as their whims and hurt
sensibilities feel like.
Finally what is that Bollywood has to be sensitive
about (a) that a 15 year old British teenager was
killed (b) or that some Goan Catholic Shannu-bab was
involved?
It's time we owned up to our faults, stopped pandering
our boys, stopped calling them shannus and babas, and
insist they become men.
selma
