• Re: Stop using the word 'Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash Vijayvargiya

    From Dr. Jai Maharaj@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, June 02, 2018 20:31:28
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    From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

    In article
    <f78bef83-5dcc-47ed-9f54-1e2a4aa11cde@googlegroups.com>,
    Madrigal Gurneyhalt <purpl...@googlemail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296

    It might help if he got his facts straight first! Complete
    nonsense!

    What do you know to be the facts?

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    https://tinyurl.com/jaimaharaj

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  • From Dr. Jai Maharaj@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, June 03, 2018 18:02:43
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    From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

    In article
    <f424229d-940a-4f82-a7ef-e58326e667e6@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <banerjee...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296

    A good initiative. Indian dancing and music are reduced to
    Bollywood, as if nothing else existed. Westerners should
    know that so-called Bollywood is nothing but a crass
    commercial process. Once upon a time it produced great
    dancing and music, but those days are long gone.

    The "--llywood" naming scheme is of foreign origin with
    respect to Bharat:

    Excerpt:

    In 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera (Nopal field),
    named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area.
    By 1870, an agricultural community flourished. The area was
    known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa
    Monica Mountains immediately to the north.

    According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, also known as the
    "Father of Hollywood", on his honeymoon in 1886 he stood at
    the top of the hill looking out over the valley. Along came
    a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of
    the wagon and bowed. The Chinese man was asked what he was
    doing and replied, "I holly-wood," meaning 'hauling wood.'
    H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new
    town Hollywood. "Holly" would represent England and "wood"
    would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already
    started over 100 towns across the western United
    States.[6][7]

    Continues at:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    http://7.ly/jai

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  • From Your Name@1:229/2 to Dr. Jai Maharaj on Tuesday, June 05, 2018 13:14:16
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    From: YourName@YourISP.com

    On 2018-06-05 00:16:53 +0000, Dr. Jai Maharaj said:
    In article
    <ed27fb9a-cbab-4be3-b25b-824f1a8d03ba@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <banerjee...@gmail.com> posted:
    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
    In article
    <f424229d-940a-4f82-a7ef-e58326e667e6@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <banerjee...@gmail.com> posted:
    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296


    <snip>

    Filmmaker Subhash Ghai's objection to the "Bollywood"
    moniker is shared by many in Mumbai. My own relatives and
    friends in the Bharatiya movie industry resent the term to
    the extent that they avoid "Hollywood" to refer to the one
    in Los Angeles. The colonial cloud will lift eventually, if
    not in our lifetime.

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    https://v.gd/jaimaharaj

    It's simply a term which indicates 'movie-making area'. The city of
    Wellington in New Zealand is often nicknamed "Wellywood" due to movies
    like 'Lord of the Rings' and being the main location for the visual
    effects company Weta. The west area of Auckland city is also nicknamed "Westiewood" due to many TV shows and movies being made there
    (including at one stage the 'Power Rangers' stuff)

    If some numbnut wants to whine about a name (and obviously has nothing
    better to do) and doesn't want India to be known as a movie-making
    country, then that's fine with me ... they're all utter crap movies
    anyway.

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  • From Dr. Jai Maharaj@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, June 05, 2018 00:16:53
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    From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

    In article
    <ed27fb9a-cbab-4be3-b25b-824f1a8d03ba@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <banerjee...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <f424229d-940a-4f82-a7ef-e58326e667e6@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <banerjee...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296

    A good initiative. Indian dancing and music are reduced to
    Bollywood, as if nothing else existed. Westerners should
    know that so-called Bollywood is nothing but a crass
    commercial process. Once upon a time it produced great
    dancing and music, but those days are long gone.

    The "--llywood" naming scheme is of foreign origin with
    respect to Bharat:

    Excerpt:

    In 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera (Nopal field),
    named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area.
    By 1870, an agricultural community flourished. The area was
    known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa
    Monica Mountains immediately to the north.

    According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, also known as the
    "Father of Hollywood", on his honeymoon in 1886 he stood at
    the top of the hill looking out over the valley. Along came
    a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of
    the wagon and bowed. The Chinese man was asked what he was
    doing and replied, "I holly-wood," meaning 'hauling wood.'
    H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new
    town Hollywood. "Holly" would represent England and "wood"
    would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already
    started over 100 towns across the western United
    States.[6][7]

    Continues at:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti

    Cinema itself is of foreign origin wrt India. It was used
    upto say the 1980s to show the best of Indian music,
    dancing, manners, traditions etc. by Hindi, Bengali, Tamil,
    etc. films. With such demeaning descriptions as Bollywood
    and Tollywood the regional and Hindi cultures are reduced
    to irrelevance, and supplanted by commercial muck
    (spasmodic jerking passes for dancing these days, and the
    less said about the songs the better) aping the West.
    Cultural standards can only improve when these *wood labels
    are removed.

    Filmmaker Subhash Ghai's objection to the "Bollywood"
    moniker is shared by many in Mumbai. My own relatives and
    friends in the Bharatiya movie industry resent the term to
    the extent that they avoid "Hollywood" to refer to the one
    in Los Angeles. The colonial cloud will lift eventually, if
    not in our lifetime.

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    https://v.gd/jaimaharaj

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Dr. Jai Maharaj@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, June 05, 2018 23:04:17
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    From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <ab636278-ad20-479b-992a-1441f2ae1a80@googlegroups.com>,
    Madrigal Gurneyhalt <purpl...@googlemail.com> posyed:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <ed27fb9a-cbab-4be3...@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <baner...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <f424229d-940a-4f82...@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <baner...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296

    A good initiative. Indian dancing and music are reduced to
    Bollywood, as if nothing else existed. Westerners should
    know that so-called Bollywood is nothing but a crass
    commercial process. Once upon a time it produced great
    dancing and music, but those days are long gone.

    The "--llywood" naming scheme is of foreign origin with
    respect to Bharat:

    Excerpt:

    In 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera (Nopal field),
    named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area.
    By 1870, an agricultural community flourished. The area was
    known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa
    Monica Mountains immediately to the north.

    According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, also known as the
    "Father of Hollywood", on his honeymoon in 1886 he stood at
    the top of the hill looking out over the valley. Along came
    a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of
    the wagon and bowed. The Chinese man was asked what he was
    doing and replied, "I holly-wood," meaning 'hauling wood.'
    H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new
    town Hollywood. "Holly" would represent England and "wood"
    would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already
    started over 100 towns across the western United
    States.[6][7]

    Continues at:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti

    Cinema itself is of foreign origin wrt India. It was used
    upto say the 1980s to show the best of Indian music,
    dancing, manners, traditions etc. by Hindi, Bengali, Tamil,
    etc. films. With such demeaning descriptions as Bollywood
    and Tollywood the regional and Hindi cultures are reduced
    to irrelevance, and supplanted by commercial muck
    (spasmodic jerking passes for dancing these days, and the
    less said about the songs the better) aping the West.
    Cultural standards can only improve when these *wood labels
    are removed.

    Filmmaker Subhash Ghai's objection to the "Bollywood"
    moniker is shared by many in Mumbai. My own relatives and
    friends in the Bharatiya movie industry resent the term to
    the extent that they avoid "Hollywood" to refer to the one
    in Los Angeles. The colonial cloud will lift eventually, if
    not in our lifetime.

    Ooh, get you! I bet all those LA studios are devastated!

    For many reasons, it is happening even to the big ones:

    'Solo' Will Lose $50M-Plus in First Defeat for Disney's
    'Star Wars' Empire

    hollywoodreporter.com
    June 4, 2018

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/solo-will-post-first-loss-disneys-star-wars-empire-1116927

    More:

    Box Office: Hollywood Suffers Worst March Downturn in
    Recent Memory

    hollywoodreporter.com
    March 26, 2018

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-hollywood-suffers-worst-march-downturn-memory-1097200

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    https://tinyurl.com/yahzmhwf

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  • From Dr. Jai Maharaj@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, June 05, 2018 17:17:03
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    From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

    In article
    <ab636278-ad20-479b-992a-1441f2ae1a80@googlegroups.com>,
    Madrigal Gurneyhalt <purpl...@googlemail.com> posyed:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <ed27fb9a-cbab-4be3...@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <baner...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <f424229d-940a-4f82...@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <baner...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296

    A good initiative. Indian dancing and music are reduced to
    Bollywood, as if nothing else existed. Westerners should
    know that so-called Bollywood is nothing but a crass
    commercial process. Once upon a time it produced great
    dancing and music, but those days are long gone.

    The "--llywood" naming scheme is of foreign origin with
    respect to Bharat:

    Excerpt:

    In 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera (Nopal field),
    named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area.
    By 1870, an agricultural community flourished. The area was
    known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa
    Monica Mountains immediately to the north.

    According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, also known as the
    "Father of Hollywood", on his honeymoon in 1886 he stood at
    the top of the hill looking out over the valley. Along came
    a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of
    the wagon and bowed. The Chinese man was asked what he was
    doing and replied, "I holly-wood," meaning 'hauling wood.'
    H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new
    town Hollywood. "Holly" would represent England and "wood"
    would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already
    started over 100 towns across the western United
    States.[6][7]

    Continues at:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti

    Cinema itself is of foreign origin wrt India. It was used
    upto say the 1980s to show the best of Indian music,
    dancing, manners, traditions etc. by Hindi, Bengali, Tamil,
    etc. films. With such demeaning descriptions as Bollywood
    and Tollywood the regional and Hindi cultures are reduced
    to irrelevance, and supplanted by commercial muck
    (spasmodic jerking passes for dancing these days, and the
    less said about the songs the better) aping the West.
    Cultural standards can only improve when these *wood labels
    are removed.

    Filmmaker Subhash Ghai's objection to the "Bollywood"
    moniker is shared by many in Mumbai. My own relatives and
    friends in the Bharatiya movie industry resent the term to
    the extent that they avoid "Hollywood" to refer to the one
    in Los Angeles. The colonial cloud will lift eventually, if
    not in our lifetime.


    Ooh, get you! I bet all those LA studios are devastated!

    For many reasons, it is happening even to the big ones:

    'Solo' Will Lose $50M-Plus in First Defeat for Disney's
    'Star Wars' Empire

    hollywoodreporter.com
    June 4, 2018

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/solo-will-post-first-loss-disneys-star-wars-empire-1116927

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    http://tiny.cc/jaimaharaj

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Dr. Jai Maharaj@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, June 06, 2018 01:24:23
    XPost: soc.culture.indian, alt.fan.jai-maharaj, rec.arts.movies.local.indian XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage, alt.politics
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    From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

    In article
    <03687562-ec74-46eb-a05e-da4be72df42c@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <banerjee...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <ab636278-ad20-479b...@googlegroups.com>,
    Madrigal Gurneyhalt <purp...@googlemail.com> posyed:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <ed27fb9a-c...@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <bane...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <f424229d-9...@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <bane...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296

    A good initiative. Indian dancing and music are reduced to
    Bollywood, as if nothing else existed. Westerners should
    know that so-called Bollywood is nothing but a crass
    commercial process. Once upon a time it produced great
    dancing and music, but those days are long gone.

    The "--llywood" naming scheme is of foreign origin with
    respect to Bharat:

    Excerpt:

    In 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera (Nopal field),
    named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area.
    By 1870, an agricultural community flourished. The area was
    known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa
    Monica Mountains immediately to the north.

    According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, also known as the
    "Father of Hollywood", on his honeymoon in 1886 he stood at
    the top of the hill looking out over the valley. Along came
    a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of
    the wagon and bowed. The Chinese man was asked what he was
    doing and replied, "I holly-wood," meaning 'hauling wood.'
    H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new
    town Hollywood. "Holly" would represent England and "wood"
    would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already
    started over 100 towns across the western United
    States.[6][7]

    Continues at:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti

    Cinema itself is of foreign origin wrt India. It was used
    upto say the 1980s to show the best of Indian music,
    dancing, manners, traditions etc. by Hindi, Bengali, Tamil,
    etc. films. With such demeaning descriptions as Bollywood
    and Tollywood the regional and Hindi cultures are reduced
    to irrelevance, and supplanted by commercial muck
    (spasmodic jerking passes for dancing these days, and the
    less said about the songs the better) aping the West.
    Cultural standards can only improve when these *wood labels
    are removed.

    Filmmaker Subhash Ghai's objection to the "Bollywood"
    moniker is shared by many in Mumbai. My own relatives and
    friends in the Bharatiya movie industry resent the term to
    the extent that they avoid "Hollywood" to refer to the one
    in Los Angeles. The colonial cloud will lift eventually, if
    not in our lifetime.

    Ooh, get you! I bet all those LA studios are devastated!

    For many reasons, it is happening even to the big ones:

    'Solo' Will Lose $50M-Plus in First Defeat for Disney's
    'Star Wars' Empire

    hollywoodreporter.com
    June 4, 2018

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/solo-will-post-first-loss-disneys-star-wars-empire-1116927

    More:

    Box Office: Hollywood Suffers Worst March Downturn in
    Recent Memory

    hollywoodreporter.com
    March 26, 2018

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-hollywood-suffers-worst-march-downturn-memory-1097200

    What about the movie script you wrote about me - "Defend
    Arindam"? They managed to make huge losses even without
    making that film. Hmm.

    The "Defend Arindam" (working title) project continues to
    be in development, so the current box office situation is
    not affected by it.

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    https://is.gd/X0G431

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Dr. Jai Maharaj@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, June 06, 2018 21:10:49
    XPost: soc.culture.indian, alt.fan.jai-maharaj, rec.arts.movies.local.indian XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage, alt.politics
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, soc.culture.india
    From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <03687562-ec74-46eb-a05e-da4be72df42c@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <banerjee...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <ab636278-ad20-479b...@googlegroups.com>,
    Madrigal Gurneyhalt <purp...@googlemail.com> posyed:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <ed27fb9a-c...@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <bane...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <f424229d-9...@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <bane...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296

    A good initiative. Indian dancing and music are reduced to
    Bollywood, as if nothing else existed. Westerners should
    know that so-called Bollywood is nothing but a crass
    commercial process. Once upon a time it produced great
    dancing and music, but those days are long gone.

    The "--llywood" naming scheme is of foreign origin with
    respect to Bharat:

    Excerpt:

    In 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera (Nopal field),
    named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area.
    By 1870, an agricultural community flourished. The area was
    known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa
    Monica Mountains immediately to the north.

    According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, also known as the
    "Father of Hollywood", on his honeymoon in 1886 he stood at
    the top of the hill looking out over the valley. Along came
    a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of
    the wagon and bowed. The Chinese man was asked what he was
    doing and replied, "I holly-wood," meaning 'hauling wood.'
    H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new
    town Hollywood. "Holly" would represent England and "wood"
    would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already
    started over 100 towns across the western United
    States.[6][7]

    Continues at:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti

    Cinema itself is of foreign origin wrt India. It was used
    upto say the 1980s to show the best of Indian music,
    dancing, manners, traditions etc. by Hindi, Bengali, Tamil,
    etc. films. With such demeaning descriptions as Bollywood
    and Tollywood the regional and Hindi cultures are reduced
    to irrelevance, and supplanted by commercial muck
    (spasmodic jerking passes for dancing these days, and the
    less said about the songs the better) aping the West.
    Cultural standards can only improve when these *wood labels
    are removed.

    Filmmaker Subhash Ghai's objection to the "Bollywood"
    moniker is shared by many in Mumbai. My own relatives and
    friends in the Bharatiya movie industry resent the term to
    the extent that they avoid "Hollywood" to refer to the one
    in Los Angeles. The colonial cloud will lift eventually, if
    not in our lifetime.

    Ooh, get you! I bet all those LA studios are devastated!

    For many reasons, it is happening even to the big ones:

    'Solo' Will Lose $50M-Plus in First Defeat for Disney's
    'Star Wars' Empire

    hollywoodreporter.com
    June 4, 2018

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/solo-will-post-first-loss-disneys-star-wars-empire-1116927

    More:

    Box Office: Hollywood Suffers Worst March Downturn in
    Recent Memory

    hollywoodreporter.com
    March 26, 2018

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-hollywood-suffers-worst-march-downturn-memory-1097200

    What about the movie script you wrote about me - "Defend
    Arindam"? They managed to make huge losses even without
    making that film. Hmm.

    The "Defend Arindam" (working title) project continues to
    be in development, so the current box office situation is
    not affected by it. -- Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti

    Hollywood is bad for the Bharatiya movie industry:

    Aishwarya Rai's former manager claims she saved her from
    the sexual advances of 'bully pig' Harvey Weinstein

    hindustantimes.com
    October 13, 2017

    https://www.hindustantimes.com/hollywood/aishwarya-rai-s-former-manager-claims-she-saved-her-from-the-sexual-advances-of-bully-pig-harvey-weinstein/story-Onto3qZfKQB5AUsnKBB1mI.html

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    http://u.to/sGvdEQ

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)
  • From Mr. B1ack@1:229/2 to All on Thursday, June 07, 2018 18:06:04
    XPost: alt.english.usage, talk.politics.misc, alt.politics
    XPost: alt.usage.english
    From: nowhere@nada.net

    On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 09:24:42 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:

    On 2018-06-07 14:15:49 +0000, Colonel Edmund J. Burke said:
    On 6/2/2018 12:02 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296


    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj

    We always called it Gollywood.
    Just sayin'.

    Selling Gollywog (or Golliwogg) dolls is also "illegal", according to
    the Politcally Correct whiners.


    Only in the totalitarian EU. You can buy and sell them
    in the USA without the slightest restriction - that "free
    speech"/"free thought" thing euros apparently despise.

    Of course if your boss is an Indian ex-pat, you might
    get fired ...........

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)
  • From Your Name@1:229/2 to Colonel Edmund J. Burke on Friday, June 08, 2018 09:24:42
    XPost: rec.arts.movies.local.indian, soc.culture.indian, alt.fan.jai-maharaj XPost: alt.english.usage, talk.politics.misc, alt.politics
    XPost: alt.usage.english
    From: YourName@YourISP.com

    On 2018-06-07 14:15:49 +0000, Colonel Edmund J. Burke said:
    On 6/2/2018 12:02 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296


    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj

    We always called it Gollywood.
    Just sayin'.

    Selling Gollywog (or Golliwogg) dolls is also "illegal", according to
    the Politcally Correct whiners.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)
  • From Colonel Edmund J. Burke@1:229/2 to Dr. Jai Maharaj on Thursday, June 07, 2018 07:15:49
    XPost: soc.culture.indian, alt.fan.jai-maharaj, rec.arts.movies.local.indian XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage, alt.politics
    XPost: talk.politics.misc
    From: burkesbabes@bigass-babes.com

    On 6/2/2018 12:02 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj


    We always called it Gollywood.
    Just sayin'.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)
  • From Your Name@1:229/2 to All on Friday, June 08, 2018 13:54:55
    XPost: alt.usage.english, talk.politics.misc, alt.politics
    XPost: alt.english.usage
    From: YourName@YourISP.com

    On 2018-06-07 22:06:04 +0000, Mr. B1ack said:
    On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 09:24:42 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:
    On 2018-06-07 14:15:49 +0000, Colonel Edmund J. Burke said:
    On 6/2/2018 12:02 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296


    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj

    We always called it Gollywood.
    Just sayin'.

    Selling Gollywog (or Golliwogg) dolls is also "illegal", according to
    the Politcally Correct whiners.

    Only in the totalitarian EU. You can buy and sell them
    in the USA without the slightest restriction - that "free
    speech"/"free thought" thing euros apparently despise.

    Of course if your boss is an Indian ex-pat, you might
    get fired ...........

    Not just the EU that has problems with Gollywog dolls been sold.
    There's idiots here in New Zealand that have had them basically banned,
    apart from one store owner (maybe others) who refuses to bow down to
    the Politically Correct whiners.

    Waiheke Island gift shop owner won't stop selling golliwog dolls
    <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11970622>

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)
  • From Dr. Jai Maharaj@1:229/2 to All on Friday, June 08, 2018 19:27:00
    XPost: soc.culture.indian, alt.fan.jai-maharaj, rec.arts.movies.local.indian XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage, alt.politics
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, soc.culture.india
    From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <03687562-ec74-46eb-a05e-da4be72df42c@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <banerjee...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <ab636278-ad20-479b...@googlegroups.com>,
    Madrigal Gurneyhalt <purp...@googlemail.com> posyed:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <ed27fb9a-c...@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <bane...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    In article
    <f424229d-9...@googlegroups.com>,
    Arindam Banerjee <bane...@gmail.com> posted:

    Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

    Stop using 'the word Bollywood': BJP Gen Secy Kailash
    Vijayvargiya to write to I&B Ministry

    dnaindia.com
    June 2, 2018

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-stop-using-the-word-bollywood-bjp-gen-secy-kailash-vijayvargiya-to-write-to-ib-ministry-2621296

    A good initiative. Indian dancing and music are reduced to >>>>>>>>>> Bollywood, as if nothing else existed. Westerners should
    know that so-called Bollywood is nothing but a crass
    commercial process. Once upon a time it produced great
    dancing and music, but those days are long gone.

    The "--llywood" naming scheme is of foreign origin with
    respect to Bharat:

    Excerpt:

    In 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera (Nopal field),
    named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area.
    By 1870, an agricultural community flourished. The area was
    known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa
    Monica Mountains immediately to the north.

    According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, also known as the
    "Father of Hollywood", on his honeymoon in 1886 he stood at
    the top of the hill looking out over the valley. Along came
    a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of
    the wagon and bowed. The Chinese man was asked what he was
    doing and replied, "I holly-wood," meaning 'hauling wood.'
    H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new
    town Hollywood. "Holly" would represent England and "wood"
    would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already
    started over 100 towns across the western United
    States.[6][7]

    Continues at:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti

    Cinema itself is of foreign origin wrt India. It was used
    upto say the 1980s to show the best of Indian music,
    dancing, manners, traditions etc. by Hindi, Bengali, Tamil,
    etc. films. With such demeaning descriptions as Bollywood
    and Tollywood the regional and Hindi cultures are reduced
    to irrelevance, and supplanted by commercial muck
    (spasmodic jerking passes for dancing these days, and the
    less said about the songs the better) aping the West.
    Cultural standards can only improve when these *wood labels
    are removed.

    Filmmaker Subhash Ghai's objection to the "Bollywood"
    moniker is shared by many in Mumbai. My own relatives and
    friends in the Bharatiya movie industry resent the term to
    the extent that they avoid "Hollywood" to refer to the one
    in Los Angeles. The colonial cloud will lift eventually, if
    not in our lifetime.

    Ooh, get you! I bet all those LA studios are devastated!

    For many reasons, it is happening even to the big ones:

    'Solo' Will Lose $50M-Plus in First Defeat for Disney's
    'Star Wars' Empire

    hollywoodreporter.com
    June 4, 2018

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/solo-will-post-first-loss-disneys-star-wars-empire-1116927

    More:

    Box Office: Hollywood Suffers Worst March Downturn in
    Recent Memory

    hollywoodreporter.com
    March 26, 2018

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-hollywood-suffers-worst-march-downturn-memory-1097200

    What about the movie script you wrote about me - "Defend
    Arindam"? They managed to make huge losses even without
    making that film. Hmm.

    The "Defend Arindam" (working title) project continues to
    be in development, so the current box office situation is
    not affected by it. -- Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti

    Hollywood is bad for the Bharatiya movie industry:

    Aishwarya Rai's former manager claims she saved her from
    the sexual advances of 'bully pig' Harvey Weinstein

    hindustantimes.com
    October 13, 2017

    https://www.hindustantimes.com/hollywood/aishwarya-rai-s-former-manager-claims-she-saved-her-from-the-sexual-advances-of-bully-pig-harvey-weinstein/story-Onto3qZfKQB5AUsnKBB1mI.html

    RICO rape filed against Weinstein and Disney

    June 1, 2018

    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4491672-Weinstein-Rico-06-01-2018-Suit.html

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.fan.jai-maharaj

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)