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Interval in a cinema hall screening a Bollywood film in the 1970s
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryJanuary 29, 2014 0

Watch: Interval at a cinema hall in the 1970s screening a Hindi film

Now that multiplexes (and piracy) have altered our movie watching experience for good, ever wondered what it was like inside a theatre back in the heydays of the single-screen theatres?…Continue Reading →

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A 1973 31-minute documentary from Merchant Ivory Productions, directed and narrated by Anthony Korner on Bollywood greatest ‘item girl’ ever.…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0October 21, 2011
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