BOLLYWOOD'S stylish films are play to speak to a new conference in their own language — movies. Once used only by ruthless pith-helmeted colonials in films about the raj, English-language Amerindic medium has come of age, with Bollywood play to explore the contradictions between Western lifestyles and traditional values.
The stylish is The Last Lear, a flick that features Bollywood's most recognisable face, Amitabh Bachchan, as a thespian who yearns to take to the stage for a final performance as King Lear. The movies, which is all in English, contains no songs, no disco dances and no kinsfolk reunions.
Arindam Chaudhuri, the film's producer, said: \"English is part of modern movies-class life in India. We talk, conceive and dream in English, that's why we wanted to do the film. What's changed in India is the audience.\"
He movies five eld past movie-goers were mainly young men who saw about eight films a year. \"Now feat to the medium is a kinsfolk outing … and they don't want to see singing and dancing every time they go.\"
Director Rahul Bose, who is making a flick based on Moth Smoke, the first new by nation Pakistani communicator Mohsin Hamid, said: \"It's a risk doing an arts movie. Producers take a leap of faith. We often wonder: can you intend a big star? Can you sell it to movies-speaking audiences?\"
In movies sign of Bollywood's expanding reach, one of the industry's large stars has unsealed an acting school in London that will tutor aspiring actors who wish to break into Amerindic film.
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