The Daily Show and Aasif Mandvi doing what they do best.
It's funny how the backdrop behind Aasif is actually a Mosque in Iran. I can so see Aasif being part of some Bollywood movie in the future. :)
It's the first mainstream (non-pure-news-media) reference to David Headley's connection with the Mumbai Terror Attacks I've come across in American media.It’s shocking that people don’t know about this shocking documentary. it was aired at the end of July 2009.
Brilliant piece of work by Channel 4 which says:
The untold story of 2008's terrorist attack, in the words of its victims and the gunmen. The programme contains graphic images and descriptions of the atrocity which may upset some viewers. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Dan Reed, Terror in Mumbai tells the story of what happened when 10 gunmen held one of the world's busiest cities hostage; killing and wounding hundreds of people while holding India's crack security forces at bay.
Featuring footage of the attacks and interviews with senior police officers and hostages, including the testimony from Kasab - the sole surviving gunman, Dispatches reveals what happened, hour by hour, from the perspective of the security forces, the terrorists, their masterminds and the victims.
The Guardian says:
Sometimes a terrible news event is so hard to get your head around, the only way to get some kind of grip on it, and what it means, is to zoom in on the detail. Dispatches: Terror in Mumbai (Channel 4) did this to extraordinary effect. Using interviews, news coverage, amateur and CCTV footage, plus - most powerfully of all - recordings of phone calls between the terrorists on the ground and the guys pulling the strings in Pakistan, it pieced together the unfolding of events last November, when shooting and bombing attacks rocked India's largest city.
I still remember that night that we spent holed up in Office, banned from risking the street to go home. I also remember the constant online streaming news coverage (courtesy IBNLive), the Twitter updates, the people that we at town side (close enough to hear the carnage and similarly holed up).
I even remember the sheer number of people connected to me in some way or the other, who were either at the scene just minutes before it happened, were right next to where it happened or knew someone who was a direct victim.
At its core, it gives an amazing close up of the psyche of the terrorists, who end up coming across as such simple youths, all from poor backgrounds, brainwashed, motivated less by religion, revenge or some deluded form of jihad (surprisingly) and more by greed for heaven (and it’s 100 virgins) and for money.
This NEEDS to be aired on Indian television ASAP.
P.S. Google for torrents
HatTip, Viram Lodhia
HatTip: Prachi (my sister) who went for Day 1 and loved it - especially the session with Ross Lovegrove
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