Word: madhubala
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...gaudy temple door. "Cut!" barked the director again and again. In a torrid Bombay movie studio one day last week, the simple, three-minute sequence was reshot eight times. But for the girls, it was worth every minute of a ten-hour day. Like such cinemorsels as Top Star Madhubala and a few other lucky ones, any one of the lowly dancing girls may suddenly grow rajah-rich in the third biggest-and zani-est-movie industry on earth...
...contrast to its star shortage, Bombay alone has 225 producers, including Actress Madhubala, 25. Unlike Madhubala's secure stardom, her role as a producer is fraught with peril. An Indian producer can afford to stay in business only by setting up a new company for each movie, then quickly dissolving it one jump ahead of the creditors. Chief reason: most of the movie capital comes from tightfisted film distributors-and the distributors are in turn bilked by the exhibitors, whose 33% chunk of total movie revenue is topped only by the government's 36%. For a producer, only...
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