Edward Zammit Lewis: ‘Malta has a great future as Bagollywood’

Published: November 11, 2014 at 6:26pm

They’re running out of ideas (and steam) so now their roadmap has taken a curious turn: INDIAN FILMS.

Malta as Bagollu…apologies, Bagollywood.

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35 Comments Comment

  1. Joe Fenech says:

    They should turn Malta into a porn centre.

  2. ghalgolhajt.com says:

    Dan bis-serjeta’ ?

  3. curious says:

    The great story, indeed. Kemm qieghed sew.

  4. Manuel says:

    Qieghed sew.

  5. TinaB says:

    I bet Rita and Simon Spiteri Tunis are overjoyed.

  6. Pier Pless says:

    Zammit Lewis is trying to justify the unjustifiable. He claims that the number of tourists from the US have increased since Michelle Muscat’s friend was appointed as MTA’s US representative.

    That is not the point. The important question is whether the increase of US tourists justifies the expense of having a representative in the US. Very unlikely. Those funds would have been much better spent to open or develop a market from continental Europe.

    (Besides there is also the issue of how she was selected and appointed.)

  7. Wistin Schembri says:

    Minister, can we have the numbers please?

    • Angus Black says:

      “At a later date, perhaps. Also the request should be in writing, an ending date is required and also the purpose for asking for the information”.

      Sometime after Christmas and new year? Maybe not.

  8. Edgar says:

    Maybe he can give us some details on how Michelle Muscat’s friend managed to bring more tourists towards this rock of ours from the USA.

  9. Joseph Caruana says:

    Maybe we could have a Bagollywood film about the bedroom lives of Maltese cabinet ministers.

  10. one of us says:

    He’s getting fatter too, like his best friend Joseph. He’s lost his neck.

  11. ciccio says:

    Is the government paving the way for a Special Envoy to India on a salary of Eur 13,000 per month?

  12. observer says:

    As far as I know, Bollywood churns out the cheapest of cheap stuff for the enjoyment of most of the silliest of the silly – and not porn stuff as such.

    Has our Tourism Ministry head ever followed intelligent assessments of India’s film industry? I bet that he has not.

  13. bob-a-job says:

    The Minister probably thinks that the ‘Curry on’ series were Indian films.

  14. Natalie Mallett says:

    The first film will be “Curry on Minister”

  15. anthony says:

    Bagollutalk.

  16. thealley says:

    I don’t know which one is funnier between the Indian thing and the caption that US tourists increased thanks to Michelle’s Muscat’s friend.

    I will not say “kemm jahsbuna cwiec u boloh” cause evidently, the vast majority of the Maltese voters are in fact, “cwiec u boloh”.

    • Watcher of lies says:

      Agreed, but that vast majority of cwiec u boloh occupy both sides of the political spectrum, with a certain (marked) degree of imbalance.

      It’s those few who own their own brain that make the difference, although sometimes they err too, such has 2013. If things keep on going they way they’re going I would not be surprised of a drastic change in voting patterns in the near future.

      The realignment had already started way back during the EU accession/referendum campaign. It continued with Muscat’s fishing for the opportunists but will continue with the second order reaction of his own grass roots.

      It’s not complicated. Alfred Sant lost 21,000 votes between 1996 and 1998.

      Mighty Yes We Can Nobel Prize winner Obama crashed just after 6 years.

      As they say, a week is a long time in politics

  17. Wilson says:

    These people are highly impressionable with nothing. Two good productions are better than 300 two week shoots. Besides the fact that proper investment never occured.

  18. Lizz says:

    I think he must have been referring to Westerns. We already have cowboys running the country, but are missing the Indians.

  19. rjc says:

    Labour well experienced in porn productions, way back in the days of Il-Macina.

  20. daffid says:

    He must be joking. Indian films shot in Malta? Ha ha ha.

  21. Mare Azzurro says:

    Qed taraw, qed taghmel xi haga l-habiba ta’ Michelle tal-Amerka mhux bhal dik ic-Ciniza, tikolha biss.

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