Covering Bollywood and the Hindi Cinema

Deepa Mehta's Water didn't win the Best Foreign Film which is not surprising as everyone had their bets on Pan's Labyrinth. However Guillermo Del Toro's magical-realist fantasy was beaten by "The Lives of Others," from Germany, which surprised many! The German director, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, thanked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California "for teaching me that the words 'I can't' should be stricken from my vocabulary."