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Indian Summer Channel
4
Cricket, Films, Documentaries and live events.
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Vipin Adhia
3rd August 02
LAGAAN
It was absolutely wonderful to see the first part of the Film
Lagaan on the afternoon of Saturday 3 August. I was just flicking
through channels and came across the above film. My young son
who absolutely loves it stopped doing everything he was. I have
the film on DVD here at home but it was great to see it on TV.
The film has a number of good principles. It was very good of
Channel 4 to show this. Please carry on and show us some more
incredible films.
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Harry
4th August 02
LAGAAN
I'm a young, white English bloke and have never ever watched
a Bollywood film before but had Lagaan on in the background
when I was doing my housework. Absolutely marvelous stuff. Superb
cinematography, stunning music, great acting and a storyline
that rivals the best of Hollywood. It was also full of references
to class, opression, racism, love the spirit of life that srosses
all walks of life worldwide. Congratulations to the commissioner
who got hold of the film for C4 and the scheduler who got it
shown at such prominent times over the weekend.
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Satish Desai
27th July 02
SAFFRON WARRIORS
I am a Hindu. My parents were very liberal and my upbringing
takes me very close to Taoism. I believe strongly that Muslims
and Hindus have been together for a very long time and they
have strong ties and common heritage regarding art and culture,
especially music. Most problems in India have been caused by
extremist influence including funds for the activists from outside,
mainly Pakistan. I was particularly disturbed by the manner
the programme "Saffron Warriors" was presented by
a Muslim "foreigner" who seemed to have no real knowledge
of the Sub-Continent. The programme seemed to have an intentional
and excessive bias against Hindus and bordered on stimulating
hatred. Why did the young Brit dismiss the burning alive of
unarmed pilgrims in a train, as if was quite irrelevant, although
that incident was the trigger for the mob actions, which many
Indian Hindus have strongly repudiated? Does the young Muslim
condone slaughter of over 50,000 civilians in Jammu and loss
of homes of innumerable Indian citizens in that region, caused
by activists funded and trained by the Military regime in Pakistan?
Why did he wrongfully translate a prayer to the Mother-land
by the Hindu volunteers as allegiance to a saffron flag, as
if it was against patriotism? Why did he pointedly make reference
to Swastika, a traditional Hindu symbol of holiness and caused
deliberate mischief by following it up by citing Nazi actions?
He should have known and laid stress on the strong and unpopular
actions taken by the Indian Government to protect Muslims, I
believe quite correctly so. Such programmes may lead to loss
of patience of peaceloving Hindus and even impair their belief
that the British TV is fair. One can understand if such programmes
were to be funded by any of the cancerous organisations in the
extremeist Islamic World in the Middle East, Pakistan or Afganistan.
However, on British Television, we have the right to expect
unbiased and well-researched programmes. I sincerely hope that
Muslims and Hindus, here and in India, put the recent bad events
behind them and live together in harmony, ignoring such unholy
and ill-advised interference.
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Ish Chandra
6th August 02
Indian Summer
Some wonderful indian programmes have been screened on Channel
4 in the last few years. The recent series of Bollywood heroines
have ignored a very popular and talented actress/singer called
Suraiya. I wonder why? Her last film was Mirja Ghalib. Thanks.
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