Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indian movies, not even kissing is permitted, though frottage (the rubbing of one clothed body against another) is allowed. Moviegoers get mainly what Shashi calls a kedgeree (a spicy dish of rice, peas and shredded onions). This appears on the screen as a mishmash of singing, dancing and bare fisticuffs, all revolving around impossible plots in which babies get swapped by villainous doubles and village belles with painted fingernails run off with rich landowners, who leave wives of unimaginable fortitude behind them. Into this unlikely mix go dubbed songs by so-called "playback singers," who become stars in their...
...need to feel abashed at not knowing the answer: Indian Actor Shashi Kapoor, 38, is one of the stars in the Asian moviemaking world whose output is prodigious by Hollywood standards but who is seldom seen in the U.S. (Shashi did play opposite Hayley Mills in Pretty Polly.) For the most part, that is just as well. No other region of the world produces such a concoction of Kung Fu, scifi, porn, soapers, chasers and period pieces with such uneven degrees of tackiness and brilliance. From India to Japan, the film studios of Asia churn out more than...
...INDIA, 8 million people go to the movies every day. That is less than 2% of the population, but a market large enough to inspire 400 new films a year. "In the frenetic Indian movie industry," reports TIME Correspondent James Shepherd, "stars are not only born in a night but burn out in a night. Producers consider themselves lucky if they wind up a picture with enough money for a new car, a new mistress and a bottle of Scotch." With stars demanding six-figure salaries, a ho-hum Hindi movie costs around $500,000. Production is sluggish, often taking...
Movie actresses are the main stylesetters in India, both in manners and morals. Zeenat Aman, who claims to be 24 but is closer to 30, has personally replaced the sari with blue jeans in millions of young Indian women's wardrobes. Parveen Babi, 22, the fastest-rising new star, is presently acting in 20 movies. One reason Indian movie fans are fascinated with Parveen, aside from her sleek figure, is because of her candor. Young men and women all over India claim that it is the swinging lives of the stars that are suddenly making them much less hesitant...
...party will be returned with a handsome majority, Mrs. Gandhi will call free-and presumably democratic -elections late this year or in the spring, and these elections will undoubtedly be accompanied by a relaxation of the strictures imposed during the emergency. This does not mean that Indian democracy will ever be quite the same again; the parliamentary system, the courts, the opposition, the press-all have been permanently changed. Regardless of what has been accomplished by the "discipline" of the past year, the tragedy is that most of it could have been achieved by a stronger leadership without resorting...