Word: calcuttan
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...true not only for rich and poor or separated-at-birth cousins. Kissing in public is a no-no, which leaves Indian romancers out in the cold, literally, where they face harassment from passersby and police alike. Rupak Manush, for one, insists love can't stay inside. The Calcuttan is demanding a Lover's Zone, a place where couples can make out in peace like their godless American counterparts. Manush says that if nothing is done by Valentine's Day, he will drag his 800 members of love?Lovers' Organization for Voluntary Exhibition?to the Calcutta Municipal Corporation where they...
...meets the Irish doctor, Joan (Pauline Collins), and he uses her as the supporting beam of his life in the village. Her selfless devotion to the cause of the diseased in the slum lures Max into the realm of the Calcuttan poor. He treats the lepers in the adjacent village, much to the horror of the paranoid denizens of his own village. The storyline takes twist after twist, placing a story within a story. The internal rivalry between the destitute lepers and the village of rickshaw-puller tenants is juxtaposed against the larger framework of animosity between the poor villagers...
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