Hindustan Times
A few weeks ago I was a western extra on a Bollywood set. It was for the film tentatively titled Jihad. I had to pretend to be a passenger in a US domestic flight. The shooting happened in an old aeroplane parked at a water park near Karjat, about an hour from Mumbai. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Filed under Mumbai · Tagged Bollywood, expats, extras in Bollywood, foreigners in Bollywood
I was relaying to an Indian female friend in Out of the Blue in Bandra over a coffee the most memorable ways I had been dumped. (These are, by the way, the sorts of conversations girls have together when on girls’ nights outs)……
They are as follows: Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Filed under Expat on the edge · Tagged being dumped, break ups, dumping episodes, marriage, relationships
One of the reasons I went to see the movie Angels and Demons at the cinema on Sunday was to marvel at the architecture in Rome. I was hoping to escape the drudgery of life by marvelling at the wonders of European Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical architecture But it was not to be. Read more
(6 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Filed under Mumbai · Tagged angels and demon, architecture, European Renaissance, jaipur, Mumbai, Neoclassical architecture, rome, south mumbai, vatican city
I was standing in the Bandra bar Zenzi chatting to some Indian friends about ‘the recession.’
“England is really bad,” one said. “I have just come back from there and shops are closing down left right and centre. It’s really depressing.”
“Everyone wants to move to India,” another said. Read more
(14 votes, average: 4.64 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Naomi Canton on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Filed under Mumbai · Tagged Bandra bar Zenzi, economic downturn, England, India, Recession, UK and USA
