Word: bollywood
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...they comfort themselves in exile? The way gangsters always have?with molls. B-grade starlets are regularly called up to Dubai to do their duty by the guys who finance the bulk of the Bollywood product. Or the mobsters order up young dancers from the beer bars of Bombay and relieve them of their virginity. Such activities require a fitting stage. One of the dons has ordered himself a bed from Dubai for a princely $36,800?not including the mattress...
...right, that?s a trick answer. It happens that the Indian film industry called Bollywood (not the American one called Hollywood) makes the most movies per year, and that in virtually every Indian picture is a musical. Though fans of Kelly?s "On the Town," "An American in Paris" and "Singin? in the Rain" might not recognize the form, the fact is that, whether an Indian movie is a love story or a period epic or a four-hour saga about cricket, at some point people will sing and dance in dazzling, delirious production numbers. And as often...
Okay, but it's a locality with a really busy airport. The Indian wedding of the title may be an arranged marriage accompanied by Bollywood-style singing and dancing, but the groom is an engineer who lives in Houston. Extended family fly in from Muscat and Melbourne, while the striving, fast-talking wedding planner keeps up a mobile-phone patter with his stock-market-mad mother. Nair insists this world is Indian - and, more to the point, Punjabi and New Delhi - to its core. "It's a film made at my dining table," she says. "The Prada miniskirt...
...Chinese clan houses, Muslim mosques and serried rows of peeling and shuttered shophouses. Cultures collide at every intersection. A walk down Lebuh Chulia, a major thoroughfare, will have your mouth watering at the spicy aromas from Chinese hawker stands and your hips swaying to the rhythms of the latest Bollywood hits as you pass Little India. For a brief respite, duck into the scented world of Sheik Abdul Hamid Bin Hassan Badjenid's perfume shop?run by three generations of Yemenite traders?where you can buy tiny bottles of pure frankincense oil for $160 apiece...
...Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio." And then add Audrey Hepburn, Julia Roberts and Kate Hudson. That's what the 29-year-old director aimed for with Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham (Sometimes There's Joy, Sometimes Sorrow), which features three generations of India's brightest movie stars in one of Bollywood's most expensive productions ever. In an industry that churns out some 500 films a year, few motion pictures have attracted as much positive prerelease buzz. "This is our Harry Potter," says Amit Khanna, president of the All India Film Producers Council...