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...shop of his Dada (Mithun Chakraborty). Some visiting Chinese folks ID him as the incarnation of their nation's greatest warrior, Liu Sheng, and think Sidhu is just the fellow to rid their village of the oppressive Hojo (Gordon Liu). Accompanied by his raffish translator Chopsticks (Ranvir Shorey), Sidhu travels to the Great Wall, where his life is saved by a mysterious beggar (Roger Yuan) with twin Indo-Chinese daughters: the TV hostess Sakhi and Hojo's henchwoman Suzy (both played by Deepika Padukone) who were separated at birth and unaware of each other's existence...
...Bootlegging Spare Change vendor ID cards is not unheard of. It's especially popular for scamming more money than the cover price of the paper when Spare Change vendors campaign for fundraising. "People will act as vendors who aren't really vendors," Shorey says. "Usually most of that scamming happens down at Downtown Crossing," he's quick...
...Shorey, who is wearing a white hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled up tight and a plaid shirt underneath to guard against the cold, says he is not a drug user. "Some people are," he says and many women and men assume that Shorey is also a drug user. "After I sold a paper yesterday, a random woman leaving the bank said 'I don't support drug habits,' as she walked by." Shorey was none too pleased, and when the woman made a point of telling a recent purchaser of Spare Change that Shorey was on drugs...
...Shorey can no longer work in the office as he did last year. He used to work three days a week distributing the paper to vendors, but needed to take a leave of absence, as he now sees a doctor almost everyday. Along with selling papers all day long, Shorey is battling a form of cancer...
...More than just a job, Spare Change provides a community for the homeless and the indigent. Spare Change, as part of the Homeless Empowerment Project, also offers computer literacy classes to vendors as well as other opportunities. Shorey, who has no family in the area, views Spare Change as a major part of his identity. "I'm pretty close to people in the office. They're like family to me," he says...