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TITLE: A PERFECT GANESH...
...Fish) and Murph (Blake Lewit) crash onto the stage belting "Baby, You Don't Care," Horovitz's over-obvious attempt to assert their alienation. These characters nearly explode with nervous energy, punching, teasing and jostling each other. When Joey and Murph realize that they are being watched by Gupta (Ganesh Ramakrishnan), a lost East Indian immigrant, they outdo each other trying to include him in their banter. Soon their nervous energy spins out of control, and their playfulness becomes destructive...
...wish Director Nair had skipped some of the melodramatic touches. Sweet Sixteen's deflowering, for example, takes place during the festival of Holi, a spring rite in which red dye symbolic of the menstrual flow adorns the particpants. Under the auspices of a float of the elephant-headed god Ganesh, whose long trunk is considered phallic, Sweet Sixteen is pushed into a taxi to take her to her first sexual encounter...
Soon he is doing such a brisk business exorcising evil spirits that he has to buy his own fleet of taxis to ferry his patients over the rutted dirt roads. When Ganesh writes a book called What God Told Me ("On Thursday, May 12, at nine o'clock in the morning, just after I had had breakfast, I saw God . . ."), half the island of Trinidad burns with celestial visions. His Profitable Evacuation (approved by island authorities in the mistaken belief that it is a book on civil defense) becomes a bestseller. Ganesh tops his career by representing his country...
Novelist Naipaul's leisurely plot is often too clotted with local color, and he rings too many changes on a basically simple theme. But his picture of Ganesh, the huckster Hindu, is the best job of its kind since Joyce Gary looked through the wambly brown eyes of Mister Johnson...