{"id":4462,"date":"2007-07-27T03:51:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/07\/stop-giving-unnecessary-bhao-west-hollywood-naseer\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T03:51:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T03:51:07","slug":"stop-giving-unnecessary-bhao-west-hollywood-naseer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/07\/stop-giving-unnecessary-bhao-west-hollywood-naseer\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Giving Unnecessary Bhao to the West (Hollywood): Naseer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/?q=dont_destroy_my_language\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Nandi<\/a> discussed us Indian being so beholden to the West.  Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/hindustantimes.com\/StoryPage\/StoryPage.aspx?id=a4f11790-3858-47a3-a880-90c191049a85&amp;&amp;Headline=I+am+not+Bollywood's+Al+Pacino%3a+Naseer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Naseeruddin Shah<\/a>, probably one of the finest actors in India saying the same thing!  We have achieved (specially the last generation) so much that there is no need to keep looking to West for feeling good anymore!  We just need to assert our worth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"Why these labels? Why do we have to look to the West to recognise our work?,\" Shah asks reporters at the Osian\u2019s Cinefan film festival in the Capital.<\/p>\n<p>\"Often people abroad ask me if I am the Al Pacino of Bollywood. Why can\u2019t they apply the same to their actors? Why don\u2019t they call Dustin Hoffman the Om Puri of Hollywood?,\" Shah said<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color:#008;text-align:right\"><em>Powered by<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qumana.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Qumana<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?q=dont_destroy_my_language\">Nandi<\/a> discussed us Indian being so beholden to the West.  Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/hindustantimes.com\/StoryPage\/StoryPage.aspx?id=a4f11790-3858-47a3-a880-90c191049a85&amp;&amp;Headline=I+am+not+Bollywood's+Al+Pacino%3a+Naseer\">Naseeruddin Shah<\/a>, probably one of the finest actors in India saying the same thing!  We have achieved (specially the last generation) so much that there is no need to keep looking to West for feeling good anymore!  We just need to assert our worth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Why these labels? Why do we have to look to the West to recognise our work?,&quot; Shah asks reporters at the Osian&#8217;s Cinefan film festival in the Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","category-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stop Giving Unnecessary Bhao to the West (Hollywood): Naseer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nandi discussed us Indian being so beholden to the West. Here is Naseeruddin Shah, probably one of the finest actors in India saying the same thing! 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