Slog - Comments on Snake God Rocks http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66 From the Herald International Tribune: Beauty queen turned Bollywood actress, Sushmita Sen, doesn't just dazzle audiences, she charms snakes too. When a snake slithered onto a movie set scaring crew members, Sen didn't flinch — instead she bowed before it and chanted Hindu hymns to calm the reptile. Filmmaker Tanuja Chandra told the Mumbai Mirror newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that as they spotted the snake, which lay coiled at the edge of a dance floor of a pub they were using as a set, Sen told everyone not to disturb it and it would leave. "As she went... Copyright 2007 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:20:42 -0800 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:07:51 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Gurldoggie So, I'm checking out this mega-babe snake goddess, and I can't help but notice that the next post down features another one-time pin-up girl turned true believer. And of course it got me thinking about...religious babe WWF-style grudge matches! Each victory is not only a triumph for bare-knuckled sex appeal, but also vindicates a metaphysical belief system!

So, in this first match, I will put $100 on the Hindu Miss Universe. And I'll pay another $100 for the play-by-play video.

Any takers?

]]> Gurldoggie http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c459412 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c459412 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:20:34 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Nope. But did anyone notice the panic in India recently when someone killed a snake, causing an entire school to be shut down over post-traumatic stress?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c459436 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c459436 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:19:22 -0800 Comment by kinaidos How convenient. She pisses off the traditional minded by playing a prostitute and then conveniently finds a snake to charm using Hindu mantras. Hmmm.
It actually goes a bit beyond that though. "Chingari" is actually a rather harsh send up of the caste system and the hypocrisy of the hindu priesthood. The film ruffled more than a few feathers among hindu fundamentalists.
Now apparently Sen is trying to distance herself from the anti-hindu-elite gesture of Chingari by showing she is a pious hindu afterall. Her bowing before the snake and singing mantras is meant to remind the reader of the Vande Mataram ("I bow before you lord-mother") controversy I think. She's just a good old hindu girl afterall.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c459438 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c459438 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:23:22 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Ah, so it's kind of like Water.

Have to keep my eyes out for that at the video store.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c459493 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c459493 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:51:21 -0800 Comment by Sean Man, would I love to see her bow before my snake.

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c459515 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c459515 Arts Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:24:12 -0800 Comment by Srinivas ROTFLMAO

The movie in question was just BAD..period. Calling it "like Water" would be giving it a status that it does not deserve. The movie came and went by without a whimper and no one was the wiser - the least of all the "Hindu fundamentalists".

As for the obeisance paid to the snake story.. that must be one big BS floating around.

Sushmita is hardly the pin-up girl for the Hindu right, here in India. Hot pic though..much better ones available online.

Srini

]]> Srinivas http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c460540 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/post_66#c460540 Arts Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:07:51 -0800