Gandhi returned to India in the mind of a disturbed gangster

New Delhi, December 7, 2006. - The Indian film "Lage Raho Munna Bhai", where "Mahatma" Gandhi was a gangster appears quixotic, has become the country as a phenomenon that has inspired protests with roses to an anti-corruption law.
The film has won various personalities of the country as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, or even the great-grandson of Gandhi, Tushar Gandhi, who confessed to Efe "be delighted" with the image and processing the message received by his great-grandfather the film.
"Apparently, India Gandhi had abandoned. But the way he preached is as old as the rivers and mountains, and without peace and love will not survive as a society. Dreaming about equality and work with the weakest still present, as evidenced by Gandhi or Muhammad Yunus, "says Tushar.
To define this new wave of pacifism equal, the film draws on neologism "Gandhigiri" (literally "make Gandhi"), which means Indians use to describe a form of protest that turns to love and tolerance for violence.
"Deception is a disease, and who deceives a patient. So the best way to fight against lies and corruption is wanting to those who have a speedy recovery, for example give them roses, "says the ghost of Gandhi gangster hallucinated.
And, captivated by the power of the message, thousands of people have taken to the streets of the country since the release of the film to protest with roses by the agricultural crisis of cotton, the precarious conditions of university education, or simply poor service a telephone company.
"A film says Tushar Gandhi - can not make a revolution, but it does generate interest. And now the message of Gandhi is back, though, somehow, was always here. "
In the film, a Bombay gangster soaks Gandhian philosophy to win her crush, a radio, but the obsession with the father of Indian independence ends up causing hallucinations.
Drawn by the ghost of Gandhi's advice, the mobster and his friend Circuit, two modern Quixote and Sancho, rush to the aid of the weaknesses of the city, amid the choreography typical "Bollywood" and a bizarre argument that combines the theories of "Mahatma" with humor, the picaresque and the underworld.
"If a guy throws a stone at a statue of me, tell him to tour the country and bring down all my statues, and to delete my name from the streets and books. I only store in the heart, "says the ghost gangster mouth before recommending turning the other cheek to receive mamporros.
With the slogan "Get well soon", the film has caught on different pages of the network, but also on selected corridors of high politics, after the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared that the film captures "the message Bapu ("Father", referring to Gandhi) on the power of truth and humanism. "
Singh also said that the film, which has become the first Hindi film premiered at the UN headquarters, is one of the references of the new law that promotes his government to fight corruption.
The success of "Munna Bhai" ("colleague Munna") lies, according to Tushar Gandhi, which has connected the moral reference of Gandhi with a youthful language close to everyday problems of people.
In the words of the great-grandson of "Mahatma", his great-grandfather, the real Gandhi, "would not be happy with today's India, full of inequalities," but "seek a positive way."
However, the ghostly Gandhi responds and reassures his countrymen from the big screen: "Do not worry about me, I'm fine and I'm still here in force, if only the head of a madman."

The "paparazzi" of India, like crazy after Brad Pitt and Angelina

New Delhi, October 7, 2006. - The media pairing of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has come to India so secret that the "paparazzi" they want to see and make photos as the actress makes a film about the murder of a reporter.
"Brangelina" do not appear together in the first photographs published today by the newspaper "The Times of India" of his stay in Pune (west), where they arrived on Thursday accompanied by his three children, two of them adopted.
Yes Angelina is a nearly lying in the cool, his eyes covered by sunglasses and the expression of someone who has just awakened from a long nap.
In another instant, poor quality, can barely be glimpsed in the distance the ruddy head of Brad Pitt, his shirt half open and torso wrapped in shadows.
"Brangelina" will be in India for the duration of their participation in the shooting female half of a film about Daniel Pearl, an American reporter kidnapped and murdered in 2002 in Karachi (Pakistan) by an extremist group while investigating the links between members Al Qaeda and Pakistan.
The couple landed in Bombay on Thursday with their three children, Shiloh Nouvel, Maddox and Zahara, and from there took a Mercedes, followed by two other vehicles, led them to a private accommodation in the nearby city of Pune.
After getting off the plane, Pitt and Jolie exchanged friendly greetings with airport workers, according to local newspapers reported jubilantly.
"Brad was carrying her daughter Shiloh Nouvel, while Maddox was transferred to the car by one of the attendees," said an airport official, demonstrating their knowledge of this particular "nobility rose."
While in Pune has broken the "hysteria", picks up the newspaper "Hindustan Times", with the arrival of the "Most Beautiful Family" in the world by the magazine "People" and speculates on the "secret" place where lie the famous actors.
Now the "paparazzi" all kinds of skirmishes plan to overcome the discretion of the couple, whose policy is to provide photographs to the media if these high amounts disbursed to charitable foundations.
Both the picture of Shiloh, the natural child of both, as the children that Jolie had previously adopted (Maddox, a child of Cambodian, and Zahara, an Ethiopian girl), are sought after by photographers hoping explore Pune to reveal the residence of Pitt and Jolie.
While some newspapers are saying that are housed in the elegant Hotel Meridien, others speculate that they are in a luxurious villa on the outskirts of the city.
In any case, the media contrasted the silent arrival of "Brangelina" to India with the traditional noise they create in their public appearances the "famous" Indians, usually surrounded by a cohort of motorists and armed guards.
The discretion of the Pitt-Jolie family in a country accustomed to noise has been well received by serious newspapers, very critical of the guild of bodyguards bollywoodienses that, as a newspaper columnist says "The Times of India", "have always finger on the trigger of the gun. "
Pune will host part of the movie "Mighty Heart", in which Angelina Jolie plays Mariane, widow of slain reporter in Pakistan and author of "Great heart: the brave life and death of my husband Danny Pearl ".
The actress, goodwill ambassador for the UN, visited Pakistan on several occasions, as when he went to visit the victims of the earthquake that struck Kashmir last year, causing over 70,000 deaths.
Angelina Jolie has developed many solidarity actions, and the aid he gave to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders with money raised by the photographs of their baby Shiloh.

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