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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Phon phentermine diet pill

I have to admit, Shahrukh Khan must work pretty hard to keep himself in shape. He plays fairly athletic buys, and does look younger than his real age, though perhaps he has the help of a lot of makeup. But for the Pain of Disco s0ng and dance number in Om Shanti Om he had to lift weights and lose lots of body fat to give himself a real hard body look. Maybe he took something like a phentermine diet pill to help him achieve that highly defined, chiseled look. In one movie he plays a soccer player whose leg is broken in a car accident on the day he gets a $5 million dollar contract, and walks with a limp after that. You'd think he could have had better medical treatment, but perhaps that's an indictment of Britain's health care system, since this took place in London. And he was hit pretty hard, so maybe he had other injuries as well. In another movie he dies young of a heart attack, and we just have to accept that he has a weak heart that can't be fixed, but it's never really defined medically.

On eczema treatment

Not all Bollywood movies are chick flicks, but many are, and that's a revelation I had the other night watching an old Shahrukh Khan movie. They are entertaining, but many of them outside the action genre are complex stories of love with great overt emotional appeals like a soap opera, together with lots of singing and dancing. Some are more serious and/or action oriented, but Khan movies seem directed mainly at women. But when I was in India and thinking of watching an Indian movie in a theater, the line consisted entirely of young boys roughly thirteen years old, and they were packed belly to back in line. I didn't feel safe or comfortable joining them, so I declined. What if one needed eczema treatment? The last Khan movie I saw, he was man who comes to a troubled family in answer to their prayers, teaches them to love and have fun, then dies of a heart problem. Quite a tear jerker at the end.

On acne wash

One of the first Bollywood movies I watched was a clearcut patriotic movie glorifying the pilots of the Indian Air Force, and was openly emotional and supportive of the job they did, appealing to patriotism in a way that hasn't been seen in Hollywood movies since World War 2. However, I've noticed lately that many contain a subtle propaganda message aimed at liberalizing Indian society. For instance, there's an old movie with
Sharrukh Khan and Kajol that is still playing in a theater despite being fifteen years old. It's a condemnation of arranged marriages. However, interestingly, it's done with more respect for the elder generation than Hollywood shows. There's noting about an acne wash, but at the end the father relents to the love the Khan and Kajol characters have for each other and allows her to go get married to Khan. Her father is portrayed as wise and loving despite believing he had the right to arrange his daughter's marriage to his friend's son, and he eventually changes his mind because he does love her.