Year 2009 brought India under the spotlight several times as far as the world stage was concerned.
The success of Slumdog Millionaire showcased some Indian artistes and locales. The word Bollywood was reinforced into world vocabulary and A.R Rahaman was raised to the position of international music stars.
India won another beauty crown when Parvathy Omanakuttan made it as a runner up in the Miss World pageant.
Former Miss India -World Aiswarya Rai who was crowned Miss World in 1994, is still referred to as the world’s most beautiful woman. She was in the world eye when she starred with Steve Martin in Pink Panther 2. What more, she and her husband Abhishek Bachchan came to be called the most popular movie star couple in the world. (And we thought that slot was for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, didn’t we? But if it was Oprah Winfrey who said that about Abhi-ash, it’s like the modern day gospel word, is it not?)
Eyes turned to the soft-spoken Prime Minister of India when at the G-20 Summit in London, he asked Obama for his autograph (International media found it funny; but what’s wrong? Isn’t Obama a living piece of history?) and when he got the honour of being the guest at the first state dinner hosted by the Obama White House. (Singh should have been in the news a little longer for the discussion he had with Obama during that visit to the US if not for the Salahis who hogged all the news-time and column space for crashing the president’s residence that night of the first state dinner. )
Anyways, Good show, India.
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