Tag: Bollywood

Lagaan decor

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Our office received a redecoration, showcasing several IPs – including the Lagaan hero, Bhuvan.

It’s an against-all-odds movie, where Aamir Khan’s peasant farmer character takes on the oppressive British imperialists in a game of cricket.

The stakes were high. And the result, I won’t spoil (cause I’ve yet to see it).

I was clearly entertained by the wall placement of the very cool larger than life-sized character sticker.

Aamir Khan despises 19th Century British tyrants taxing his land, and power points not hidden from view.

Bengali Matrimony.com

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With such a large Indian presence in Dubai, a lot of the online news for the area have links to Indian ads.  One that got my attention this morning was the Bengali Matrimony web site, http://www.bengalimatrimony.com/

It’s mostly the same as what (I assume) you’d expect on an online dating site back home.  It has a few differences though.  It seems to have a pretty comprehensive search on religion, region and language – I guess as India’s such a large, populous and diverse place.

But I thought the face search was most interesting
(http://profile.bengalimatrimony.com/search/smartphotoform.php).

What it does is allow you to return all the prospective brides that have a facial similarity to your chosen Bollywood actress. Woohoo!

It seemed a bit hit and miss from my trial of this (for purely research purposes obviously), but obviously worth a try.