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...ACTRESS AND THE DIRECTOR...
...interview begins. Sean talks about being a kid and starting a band in England with his cousin, recording their first demo tape in his bedroom and being swooned over. He also talks about listening to bhangra music, choosing singing over medicine as a career and picking a Bollywood actress to star in his latest music video. The interview wraps, but the star, who was raised in Britain by India-born parents, stays seated to shoot a few promotional clips. "This is your boy Jay Sean," he says, "and you're watching MTV Desi...
...interest? It's not just America's growing appetite for South Asian culture--movies like Bend It Like Beckham and stars like Bollywood actress and model Aishwarya Rai. The marketing thrust started with the 2000 Census, which revealed that during the 1990s the number of Indians in the U.S. more than doubled--making them the fastest-growing Asian minority. There are some 2.5 million desis in the U.S., and the vast majority are Indian. That may not seem terribly significant compared with, say, 40 million Hispanics, but consider how premium a customer a South Asian is: Indians alone commanded...
...that, along with titles such as India Today, India-West and New India Times, is attracting ads from the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Lufthansa, New York Life, GM, Western Union, AT&T and the New York Times. Just consider that Sean, in typical eyebrow-raising rock-star fashion, picked actress Bipasha Basu for his music video in part because she was racy enough to have had an onscreen kiss--a rarity for a Bollywood star. The mores of bare-it-all Hollywood could not be further away...
Seeing the new Lindsay Lohan vehicle Herbie: Fully Loaded alone feels slightly dirty, like college kids trolling for dates outside their high-school. No matter Lohan’s impressive endowments as an actress, it’s still just a kid’s movie, right...