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What do you think about the latest batch of stoner films - Pineapple Express, Harold & Kumar? I read some reviews about Pineapple Express and one was very interesting. They said these movies, including ours, are an experience. It's like a contact high. If you look at all the Cheech and Chong movies, no one ever got hurt, no one ever got killed - the most you ever got was high...
...that's not much comfort to those who were counting on Asia's boom to continue as uneventfully as it has over the past several years. Amit Kumar, a 22-year-old New Delhi resident, started a small building-materials business two years ago when India's capital was enjoying an unprecedented construction boom. But with interest payments on his bank loans mounting and customers dwindling, he closed up shop six months ago and started driving a taxi. The job is "beneath my status," Kumar complains, "but at least it keeps a roof above my head." If Asian governments...
...Staff writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...
...case is still pending and the parents are demanding justice. Then, there are the activists of the Mafia Unmoolan Samiti, which is raising its voice against organized crime; the Rashtriya Viklang Party, which works for rights for disabled persons and has been here for years; and solo protester Ramdev Kumar from Seemapur, who claims his wife left him for someone else and his brother usurped his house. "I want the government to do something," he says...
Audiences appear ready for such a thing--even beyond those 15 million people, many of prime moviegoing age, who share the protagonists' appetites. Pot films are making out like criminals. The second of Harold and Kumar's trips, not nearly as critically acclaimed as the first, nevertheless did twice as well at the box office. And while the presence of (legal) tobacco cigarettes in films has become a cause célèbre among public-health advocates, there's not a lot of protest that putting pot in movies, even ones as silly as Pineapple Express, glamorizes...