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Word: mehboob (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
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...filmed the prizewinning Father Panchali (TIME, Oct. 20), the Indian movie business is likely to go on pandering to more undemanding millions than Hollywood ever envisioned. There is good reason: the occasional jackpot is full of jack indeed. For a borrowed $500,000 two years ago, Bombay Producer Mehboob Khan made a color film, Mother India (no kin to Katherine Mayo's book of the same name), which has since raked in $2,000,000. Mehboob's next step: getting Hollywood itself to lend a co-producing hand with an even more lavish film fetchingly titled Taj Mahal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: The New Maharajahs | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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