Dil aur Deewaar
Heat and Dust
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Merchant and Ivory’s India-set films tend to rip out my heart and stomp on
it—in a good way. Two years ago I wrote about Shakespeare-Wallah for
Switcheroo ...
18 hours ago
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Gosh, so true. Maybe I'm just going by what I've seen in the 70's movies(because I've seen the most films from that decade and it's easier to see a pattern there), but white people look sickly and strung out more often than not in Bollywood movies. Maybe the only available white extras back then were the confused bohemian types who wandered on to the set ;) And then I suppose you also have to count all the pale weasel-y sorts--like the dude who works for Supremo in Parvarish.
Is this going to be a Thing? Because I could contribute!
Oh I hope this is the beginning of a thing.
Me and the Bollywood white people, we got a thing goin' on.
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