Word: rituparno
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...China but Korea, Japan, Thailand." The festival is also expanding its coverage of Bollywood directors. "In the last five years," he notes, "they've been seeking a wider international audience, so they've been toning down their more risible cultural specificities." (Translation: fewer wet-sari production numbers.) This year Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear will play in Toronto, with all-time megastar Amitabh Bachchan - India's Brando and Fred Astaire in one big, bearded package - gracing the event...
...India's quasi-art films, for example, may allow for the rare scheming woman-as in Maqbool, where the Lady Macbeth role is played with intoxicating seductiveness by Tabu-but more often they depict a complex and suffocating code of behavior condemning women to second-class status or worse. Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher Bali, A Passion Play, based on the Rabindranath Tagore story, tells of a young Calcutta widow (Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai) living in the lavish prison of her in-laws' home. The very beauty of the sets and costumes confines our heroine, traps her in their heavy luxury...
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