re: #268 Killgore Trout

The little kids did a great acting job. There were a few cultural references that might get lost on Western audiences. Like the stuff about cutting off limbs and intentional blinding to make kids more profitable beggars. It’s very real and fairly common. I also enjoyed hearing the Hindi curse words again. The only Hindi I remember are the curse words.

I’ve been a Bollywood fan for a while and was pleasantly surprised how well the form was handled by a Western director.

Oh, and did you hear that Shah Rukh Khan was detained for two hours by Customs in Newark Airport the other day? I mean, this is Shah Rukh freakin’ Khan we are talking about here, the most famous actor in Asia. It’d be like Tom Hanks being detained in Mumbai. People kept telling the Customs Agents who he was. They didn’t listen. His “name was on a computer”.