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DIAL-A-CAB AND JIM’S TAXI MOVE TO BOLLYWOOD! |
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 The lovely Katrina Kaif - no wonder they are fighting over her!
The October Call Sign revealed
how Dial-a-Cab’s Jim Rainbird (T25)
had been involved with the glitzy
world of Bollywood! Jim explained how he had
been approached to do a film shoot for an
Indian production that was going to involve
him driving his fully logoed DaC taxi, but
that as his mastery of Hindi wasn’t quite
up-to-scratch, an Asian actor would actually
play Jim while Jim ducked down inside the
luggage compartment during still shots! The
Indian actor explained to Jim how he had
just finished working on the new James Bond
film and in which they had written off three
brand new Aston Martin DB9s! Jim asked him
to be gentler with his taxi as it was the
only one he had and that anyway, MI6
probably didn’t regard him in the same light
as Mr Bond! |
conservative thinking and
beliefs held from time immemorial.
Namastey London deals with the conflict between Indian and Pakistani parents who have emigrated to the UK and their children - who are born and bred here - when they are old enough to get married. Jasmeet (Karina Kaif), the daughter of Punjabi parents, fancies her white boss (Charlie Brown) because he possesses everything she would want in a man (class, money, career). Charlie fancies her too and proposes. This is in contrast to what her father (played by Rishi Kapoor) wants - a nice boy from back home in Punjab! He arranges for Jasmeet – who calls herself Jazz - to meet a guy from India at a London restaurant and she successfully plays a drunken fool and scares the poor guy off! Then coming out of the restaurant she hails a cab, a nice shiny Dial-a-Cab taxi driven by Jim Ra… sorry, by Parvez Khan! On the way back to her workplace, she changes from her Indian clothes to western clothing and the driver - like any good cabbie - adjusts his rear view mirror to get the full view of the goings on at the back! Unbeknown to the cinema audience, our Jim Rainbird must have changed colour because he sure looked Asian! Back to the movie, Jasmeet’s father tricks her into going to India where he forces her to marry |
 Jim Rainbird magically becomes Parveez Khan
village boy Arjun (Akshay
Kumar) |
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INTRODUCING LENNY BELL’S GRANDSON LIAM |
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On 17 March 2005 at Rainham
Jewish cemetery, along with many Dial-a-Cab
drivers, Board members, relatives and
numerous friends, Call Sign
said goodbye to a real friend – Lenny
Bell (ex-L01) – who finally succumbed to
his illness after a very long and brave
battle. In June 2003, Len and wife Stephanie’s daughter Julia gave birth to twins – Mathew and Georgia - and they soon became the love of his life. Len never saw them growing up, but he fought to make sure that he was going to have at least some time with them. And he did, even to the extent of sending photos of the twins to Call Sign just like any proud grandfather. Len’s daughter-in-law Emma – together no doubt with assistance from son Gavin – has now given birth to another grandchild for Stephanie and |
 Len's son Gavin holds Liam on the day he was born
wherever he is, for Len as
well. |
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