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Listed below are comments made by mprathap between Wednesday, 22nd October 2008 and Monday, 17th August 2009.

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Bollywood cool 11:42pm on 17 Aug 2009 Mr. Biswas has a responsibility to clear up a major ambiguity in this blog - when he says Bollywood, does he mean the Hindi movie industry based in Mumbai or the Indian film industry as a whole. If he refers to the Mumbai based industry - well he may be partially correct in writing what he has written. But, if he refers to the entire Indian industry, then it would be truly quite appalling to see a correspondent for BBC news in India to come up with such a narrow view of Indian cinema. As 'amanandh' said there a directors aplenty in Malayalam and Tamil whose movies do not even a shred of resemblance to the so called linear stories with happy endings etc...

Even his claim that Vishal's Kaminey is something new is quite untrue. He is a great director - but he cannot claim that his style is his own - like most Mumbai based directors, he is so intent on copying the Hollywood style of movie making. It's just that he succeeds in doing it exceptionally well.
The end of a cricketing era 08:08am on 22 Oct 2008 Being an Indian fan, I am overjoyed by India's convincing win. But as a keen observer of the game, I do not think any international team still has the mettle to dethrone the Aussies from their No. 1 spot - at least for a few more years to come. For one thing, when the likes of Bret Lee and Symonds get going, we know what that means to the opposition. Promising young players like Shaun Tait are yet to fire - which I sincerely believe is just a matter of time before it happens. And Australia just lost to an Indian team performing at its best in India. Any Indian fan would know how little they can rely on their team's consistency.

The current Australian team may not be in the caliber of the one that Steve Waugh captained - but they are still way ahead of any other team!

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