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The combination of last fall's hostage siege in its luxury hotels and the nomination of Slumdog Millionaire for the Academy Awards has started to turn the Mumbai dateline into a household word on the nightly newscasts. NBC's Ian Williams picked up on the Bollywood movie theme--now the city is Mumbai not Bombay, shouldn't Bollywood be Mullywood?--by profiling the animators at Rhythm & Hues, already Oscarworthy for their special effects in The Golden Compass.
CBS' Seth Doane certainly nailed the kinetic energy of the city as he took off from Slumdog's chai-wala to the full-fledged dabba-walas: the 5,000 deliverymen who serve 200,000 home-cooked lunches to the business district every day. "They do not slow down for curious reporters," Doane laughed. "I have managed to get on a car with dabbawalas…though I am on the wrong car of dabbawalas."
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