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Taken separately, the two stories on the front page of the Times of India last Monday at first seem like so much fluff. There was the long-anticipated news that actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai and Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan will soon tie the knot. Below it, jostling for space with a piece about the Soduku craze sweeping India, was the revelation from a new biography that the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, conducted some sort of love affair with Saraladevi Chaudhuri, the married niece of acclaimed Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore...
...young couples holding hands in public parks. Over the past few years a group of Hindu nationalists around the country have burned Valentine's Day cards and branded the festival "cultural corruption." Kissing still raises eyebrows when depicted in big Bollywood movies. Even the announcement of Rai and Bachchan's impending nuptials brought an old-fashioned reaction from his father, the Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan. Bachchan senior described his son's fiancee, who has mixed beauty with business savvy to create a small fortune of her own, as a "simple, traditional and a home-loving individual...
...Friday night, and the big theater was jammed with Indian fans awaiting the premiere of the new year's big movie. Bollywood princess Aishwarya Rai was greeted with a bouquet of roses from a city official and audience cries of "We love you, Ash!" Abhishek Bachchan, a rising actor and son of Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan, enters to girlish squeals not heard since Hrithik Roshan last went topless in public. Mani Ratnam, who is internationally the most revered writer-director of Indian films, said a few words. Composer A R Rahman, whose hundred or so film scores have made...
...plays the character from his early 20s to his 60s and is persuasive for most of that span, though I wouldn't have minded if his dad had taken over in the later scenes. (Amitabh wouldn't agree. He said recently: "My father [the poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan] wrote in his biography, ?When a father loses to his son, it is his greatest victory!' I've lost to my son! And I'm the happiest father alive!") Early in the film, Abhishek uses his dimples to underline the notion of innocent ambition. As the character ages, Abhishek's playing shades...
...Vibrant Art Form Our report on Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan [Oct. 3] made clear that there is plenty of opportunity for second acts in the lives of those who have made it big in Bollywood. In a review of one of Bachchan's films nine years ago, TIME described the burgeoning Indian cinema business [Sept...