For all the commotion that Slumdog is causing in India, including allegations of “poverty porn”, we should recognize that poverty, and its associated ills, have rarely been depicted by bollywood cinema, new or old. The great masters of the “old” Bollywood such as Bimal Roy and Guru Dutt were not really mainstream popular cinema. They were [...]
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