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Bombay Dreams

Topic started by Sajeev Raj (@ 210.195.144.64) on Sat Apr 13 22:31:21 EDT 2002.
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Bombay Dreams is releasing in June 2002

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• From: Hari (@ 209.245.47.211) on: Thu Aug 29 23:40:12 EDT 2002
  
  I think one reviewer has done reviewing twice..
  These Amazon reviews.. you think anyone is going to buy the CD based on these reviews? I heard mp3s of bombay. same old tunes... he keeps grinding until the tunes start crying "Enna vitru"... we know what it is worth.. someone in the middle has rightly mentioned "Bad Dreams".
  Very disappointing effort. Since he didn't take any movie assignments during these days, he should have come out with totally new music instead of recycling 1996 tunes..
  
  
• From: source (@ 64.152.173.245) on: Fri Aug 30 00:32:51 EDT 2002
  
  any way 4.5 million dollar costed bombay dreams has hit bottom ...now arr is coming back to ind ...wht a joke
  
  
• From: Prakash (@ 166.90.23.242) on: Fri Aug 30 01:18:17 EDT 2002
  
  "Here was a show that truly divided the critics. Some raved, some drew blood. I must warn you now, this is not a rave. In fact I'm sorry to say I think the show fails spectacularly on almost every level. And I am sorry, because shows with brave concepts attempting to move the boundries and stretch the limits of musical theatre are to be applauded - not discouraged. But this was even less enjoyable that We Will Rock You."
  
  
  "The show was vocally disappointing. Leads Raza Jaffrey and Preeya Kalidas have sweet voices but are both rather limited and unimpressive. Raj Ghatak played token transsexual Sweetie but had lost his voice, and in a ludicrous decision, mimed the songs while Dean Hussain sung. Shelley King was amusing, but no one seems to have picked up on the fact that the viscous showbiz reporter character 'Kitty' is directly lifted from Syal's television comedy Goodness Gracious Me without even so much as a name change. "
  
  "I am ashamed to say that this was the first time I was truly tempted to leave at the interval - but I am glad that I didn't. I never could have dreamt that it could get so much worse. "
  
  "I don't take enjoyment out of ripping a show to shreds, but I have a duty to you readers to tell you how diabolical the show is. Because if I had spent money on top price tickets I would demand a refund. "
  
  by Mark Barlow, London Reviewer
  mark.barlow@musicalstages.co.uk
  
  USUALLY U.K people appreciate even mediocre things that we do since they try to behave like gentlemen. But this reviewer must have been awfully pissed off after seeing the show.
  
  
  
  
  
• From: gururaja (@ 203.197.177.68) on: Sat Aug 31 03:26:10 EDT 2002
  
  why did i buy the cd?iam feeling sorry for it.
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ ) on: Wed Nov 6 05:08:31 EST 2002
  
  BD nominated for best musical award
  
  
  "Elsewhere in the nominations, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bollywood
  extravaganza Bombay Dreams goes head to head with The Full Monty and
  Gershwin's My One And Only for best musical."
  
  
  
  http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_702967.html
  
  Paltrow nominated for top theatre award
  
  Gwyneth Paltrow has been nominated for one of the most prestigious
  awards in British theatre for her West End debut.
  
  
  
  Paltrow's performance in Proof at the Donmar Warehouse earlier this
  year garnered rave reviews.
  
  Now it has earned her a nomination for best actress at the Evening
  Standard Theatre Awards.
  
  The star has already beaten the likes of Meryl Streep and Cate
  Blanchett to win an Oscar for her role in Shakespeare In Love in 1999.
  
  In Proof she played Catherine, the troubled daughter of a mentally
  ill maths genius, with critics calling her performance "compelling"
  and "almost flawless".
  
  Paltrow is one of a host of Hollywood stars to tread the boards in
  the West End this year - including Matt Damon, Woody Harrelson and
  Kyle MacLachlan - but the only one to make it onto this year's
  shortlist.
  
  She will compete with British actresses Helen McCrory, for her role
  as Yelena in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Donmar, and Clare Higgins,
  who played Ursula in the National Theatre's production of Vincent in
  Brixton.
  
  Elsewhere in the nominations, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bollywood
  extravaganza Bombay Dreams goes head to head with The Full Monty and
  Gershwin's My One And Only for best musical.
  
  Sam Mendes, partner of Kate Winslet, is up for best director for his
  two farewell productions at the Donmar - Uncle Vanya and Twelfth
  Night.
  
  The awards will take place on November 25 and will be broadcast by
  Carlton on November 28.
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.197.141.186) on: Wed Nov 6 05:08:54 EST 2002
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,830054,00.html
  
  Royal Court takes centre stage
  
  Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent
  Tuesday November 5, 2002
  The Guardian
  
  Gwyneth Paltrow may make the headlines, but it was the Royal Court
  Theatre that was celebrating five nominations in the Evening Standard
  Theatre Awards last night.
  The film star is in the running for best actress for her performance
  in Proof, a play about mathematics at the Donmar Warehouse that did
  not quite add up. The Royal Court, however, appears to have
  rediscovered its magic formula. Not only has it the highest number of
  nominations, beating the National Theatre's four and the Royal
  Shakespeare Company's two, but most come from the least starry of its
  productions.
  
  Plasticine, a play by the Siberian Vassily Sigarev, won him a
  nomination for most promising playwright.
  
  The hero of the piece, disappointed with life, sits in his room
  making models out of Plasticine. In one scene he is expelled from
  school for waving a Plasticine penis at a female teacher. It was
  performed at the theatre as part of its international writers'
  festival.
  
  The nominations are: Best play The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin
  McDonagh, A Number by Caryl Churchill, The York Realist by Peter
  Gill; Best actor Daniel Craig for A Number, Tom Georgeson for Frozen,
  Simon Russell Beale for Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night; Best actress
  Clare Higgins for Vincent in Brixton, Helen McCrory for Uncle Vanya,
  Gwyneth Paltrow for Proof; Best director Tim Carroll for Twelfth
  Night, Dominic Cooke for Plasticine, Sam Mendes for Uncle Vanya and
  Twelfth Night; Best designer Stephen Brimson Lewis for Much Ado About
  Nothing, Bill Dudley for The Coast of Utopia, Ian MacNeil for
  Plasticine and A Number; Best musical Bombay Dreams, The Full Monty,
  My One and Only; Outstanding newcomer Jake Gyllenhaal for This is Our
  Youth, Jochum Ten Haaf for Vincent in Brixton, Alison Pargeter for
  Damsels in Distress; Most promising playwright Charlotte Eilenberg
  for The Lucky Ones, Anthony Neilson for Stitching, Vassily Sigarev
  for Plasticine.
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.197.141.186) on: Wed Nov 6 05:09:24 EST 2002
  
  Paltrow, Mendes and Bombay Dreams Among Evening Standard Noms
  05-NOV-2002
  
  http://www.playbill.com/cgi-bin/plb/news?cmd=show&code=113716
  
  Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow is among the nominees for this
  year's Evening Standard Award for Best Actress. Paltrow is nominated
  for her recent portrayal of Catherine in the Donmar Warehouse
  production of Proof, David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The
  London debut production — which also starred Richard Coyle, Ronald
  Pickup and Sara Stewart — was directed by John Madden. Paltrow is
  also scheduled to star in the film version of the play for Miramax
  Films.
  
  Paltrow's competition for the Evening Standard Award includes Clare
  Higgins and Helen McCrory. Higgins portrayed Ursula in the National
  Theatre's production of Vincent in Brixton, and McCrory received her
  nomination for her role as Yelena in the Donmar Warehouse's
  production of Uncle Vanya. That production is also responsible for
  Sam Mendes' nomination as Best Director. Mendes is actually nominated
  for his two farewell productions at the Donmar, Vanya and Twelfth
  Night. His competition includes Tim Carroll, nominated for his
  production of Twelfth Night at The Globe; and Dominic Cooke,
  nominated for The Royal Court's mounting of Plasticine.
  
  Nominees in the Carlton Television Best Musical category include
  Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of Bombay Dreams, which features
  music by A.R. Rahman, lyrics by Don Black and a book from novelist-
  writer comedian Meera Syal; the Gershwin musical My One and Only; and
  the London production of The Full Monty, which will end its West End
  run on Nov. 23.
  
  The Evening Standard Awards will be presented at the Savoy on Monday,
  Nov. 25; Carlton Television in the U.K. will broadcast the ceremony
  at 11:30 PM on Thursday, Nov. 28.
  
  Nominees follow:
  
  Best Actress
  Gwyneth Paltrow (Proof)
  Clare Higgins (Vincent in Brixton)
  Helen McCrory (Uncle Vanya)
  
  Best Actor:
  Tom Georgeson (Frozen)
  Daniel Craig (A Number)
  Simon Russell Beale (Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night)
  
  Best Director:
  Sam Mendes (Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night)
  Tim Carroll (Twelfth Night)
  Dominic Cooke (Plasticine)
  
  Best Stage Designer:
  Stephen Brimson Lewis (Much Ado About Nothing)
  Bill Dudley (The Coast of Utopia)
  Ian Mac-Neil (Plasticine and A Number)
  
  Best Play:
  Caryl Churchill (A Number)
  Martin McDonagh (The Lieutenant of Inishmore)
  Peter Gill (The York Realist)
  
  Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright:
  Anthony Neilson (Stitching)
  Charlotte Eilenberg (The Lucky Ones)
  Vassily Sigarev (Plasticine)
  
  Outstanding Newcomer:
  Jochum Ten Haaf (Vincent in Brixton)
  Alison Pargeter (Damsels in Distress)
  Jake Gyllenhaal (This Is Our Youth)
  
  Carlton Television Best Musical:
  Bombay Dreams
  My One and Only
  The Full Monty
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.197.141.186) on: Wed Nov 6 05:10:30 EST 2002
  
  In the above posting BD is only nominated in one category and that is Best Musicals...I need not tell you who is responsible for the Musical's Music.
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.197.141.186) on: Thu Nov 7 04:28:15 EST 2002
  
  In todays City Express (Suplement of New IE)
  
  The ratings are
  
  International:
  BD - 2nd Position
  
  Hindi :
  Sathiya - 1st Position
  
  Tamil:
  KV - 2nd Position
  
  
• From: just an observation (@ 195.93.34.7) on: Thu Nov 7 09:18:21 EST 2002
  
  London's Top Ten Musicals
  Source: LondonTown.com
  
  Reader Rating 3062 votes
  
  
  Page: 1 of 2
  
  
  
  1. The Lion King
  2. Mamma Mia!
  3. Phantom of the Opera
  4. Fame
  5. My Fair Lady
  6. Les Miserables
  7. Chicago
  8. The Mousetrap
  9. The Full Monty
  10. Taboo (Editor's choice)
  
  

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