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When British musicals king Andrew Lloyd Webber and the great Bollywood film composer A.R. Rahman announced their plans for a stage musical two years ago, the Indian media went wild. Lloyd Webber had been captivated by Rahman's music, so he traveled to Bombay to meet the Asian master. If Rahman had been female and Lloyd Webber Indian and single, it could have been the perfect Bollywood film plot. A deal was struck, and Bombay Dreams, composed by Rahman and produced by Lloyd Webber and his Really Useful Group at a reported cost of $7 million, will open at London...
...Bombay Dreams is a star-is-born tale of an actor from the slums who finds love, glamour and corruption in Bollywood. Lloyd Webber is selling it as something totally new, which London theater could certainly use. "The West End desperately needs new writers," he says, "yet it's all going on in Asia, where these film musicals get a huge audience. I hope that Rahman will be the sort of composer to make young people want to write for theater, because his rhythms and melodies are so exciting...
...glass company before switching his sights to food. Riboud ran Danone, which now has $12.7 billion in sales, until late in his 70s when he handed control to his son Franck. DIED. KAIFI AZMI, 87, award-winning Urdu poet, lyricist and father of Indian actress Shabana Azmi; in Bombay. A student of the progressive school of poetry, Azmi's writings often mirrored the socio-political scene in India where he was an advocate for a socialist society. DIED. YEVGENY SVETLANOV, 73, Russian conductor who led Russia's State Symphony Orchestra for more than three decades; in Moscow. Svetlanov appeared...
...girl's clothing as bait to blackmail clueless British colonial officers of confused sexuality. Kunzru's alcohol-soaked collision of English stiffness and Indian sensuality has a Dickensian slant (though with more buggery than one remembers from The Pickwick Papers). After an apocalyptic tiger hunt, Rukhsana takes refuge in Bombay, where by day he learns English and by night rules the red lights as a half-breed hustler called Pretty Bobby...
...seething Bombay that Bobby becomes convinced he can bridge the racial chasm of British India and pass as English. Bobby swipes the identity of an orphaned British lad and steals to England, where public school and Oxford pour the new Jonathan Bridgeman into the mold of a proper Englishman, only to have that mold ultimately crack...