The ‘Slumdog’ factor
American ice dancing pair Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the NHK Trophy on Sunday, rising into the lead with a medley of ‘Kajra Re,’ ‘Dola Re Dola’ and ‘Silsila Yeh Chahat Ka’ (thanks, blackmamba):
Davis and White were first after the original dance [the Bollywood medley] and were awarded 100.79 points following a strong free program… With their second title of the season, reigning U.S. champions White and Davis locked up a spot in the Grand Prix finals in Tokyo on Dec. 3-6. [CNN]
It’s perhaps the first American homage which hasn’t entirely sluttified the outfits. The kurta isn’t as fitted as most skating costumes, and the woman’s outfit, though minimal, is less skimpy than recent item numbers. What’s more interesting is how a small British movie about Indian poverty scored by A.R. Rahman has kicked up mainstream Bollywood homage in America.
on Thursday, November 12th, 2009, 10:41 pm in Fashion, Slumdog Millionaire, Sports, Video clips › 
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Devdas was in itself quite famous outside India (It was the foreign film pick for cannes?)
So, Im not sure if this had anything to do with slumdog.
Well, to be fair, it’s not like the figure skating world is deliberately trying to sluttify (what a great verb!) Indian outfits. They’re equally-opportunity slutifiers. Anyways, nice find!
Devdas didn’t have one thousandth of the fame or awareness outside India that Slumdog has had.
Verb of the day: sluttify! LOL!
By the way, it’s “Kajrare” (one word, it’s an adjective) not “Kajra Re”. A very common mistake.
A tremendous shame. Slumdog wasn’t even great. Good, but not great. Even the soundtrack ripped off “Don”.
Slumdog is a better movie than the overblown camp hysterical infantilism of Devdas.
And Dev D, for all its faults, righteously lords it over Devdas too.
No dispute there. Dev D should’ve had Slumdog’s fame, but lacking a famous white director, one can see where PR efforts lapsed.