Bollywood Called to Arms
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2014 Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu poses on the green carpet at the Tampa Convention Bollywood actress Vaani Kapoor poses on the green carpet at the Tampa Convention Center ahead of IIFA Rocks on the second day of the 15th International Indian Film Center ahead of IIFA Rocks on the second day of the 15th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards in Tampa, Florida on April 24, 2014. — AFP photos Academy (IIFA) Awards in Tampa, Florida. Bollywood called to arms against climate change ollywood’s glitterati on Thursday heard an living species of the world, face,” he told including a forum with Indian investors. Mayor Bob Buckhorn voiced hope that appeal to use their star power to fight cli- Bollywood celebrities assembled in a heavily air Tampa would become a household name for Bmate change as they opened their first conditioned hotel ballroom. Pachauri, chairman Two-way exchange Bollywood lovers and an Indian investment des- awards ceremony in the United States. Bringing of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate The award organizers each year choose a site tination. He insisted that his city-which has his- a somber note in the midst of Bollywood’s trade- Change, which recently issued its latest stark outside India in hopes of showing Bollywood’s toric roots in the American South-has embraced mark festive dancing, Rajendra Pachauri, the warning, said that average sea levels have risen global clout, but had never before held the the awards and Indian culture. “When I walk Indian scientist who leads the Nobel Prize-win- 19 centimeters (seven and a half inches) over event in the United States, even though the down the street and hear somebody with an ning UN climate panel, took the stage in Tampa, the past century and could rise as high as 98 country has become Indian cinema’s largest Alabama accent say ‘namaskar,’ I know we’ve Florida, to urge stars to channel their influence centimeters by the end of the century without overseas market.
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