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Nisha Susan:The Mems And Saabs Of Berlin
Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 15, Dated April 19, 2008
Teaser: The Mems And Saabs Of Berlin
Forget Raj Kapoor fans in Russia. An international fan club now stalks Bollywood online, says NISHA SUSAN
WHEN BIRGIT PESTAL stumbled upon a film shoot in India she called Barbara Skoda in Vienna. “They are shooting a song sequence. It’s for a movie called Shaadi Ke After Effects with two actors called Arbaaz Khan and Malaika Arora. Do we know them?” “YES! We do. They are Salman´s brother and sister-inlaw. You might know him from Hulchul and her as the item girl with SRK in Kaal,” replied Barbara, a 36-year-old manager at a media-technology college but is better known online as Babasko, author of the effervescent blog Baba Aur Bollywood. She and half-a-dozen others from across the world who have formed the group blog Bollywoodbloggers.com are the most visible online presence of non-Indian fans of Indian cinema.
Perhaps it’s not so surprising that Pestal, a German journalist wrote a book on Bollywood (the title roughly translates to Fascination Bollywood: Numbers, facts and background in the German-speaking countries).
Full story: http://www.tehelka.com/story_main38.asp?filename=hub190408The_Mems.asp
Kategorie: Bollywood, mediasphere, Mensch
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