This post is dedicated to the insanely great Dil Se, especially the dance sequence below and on the link. In the West, if two or more people encounter each other on top of a moving train, one of them will die. In Bollywood, there are other options:
Using posters from a Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry, artists throw in Indian
miniatures, traveling carnivals, folk paintings in a florid vein and Mexican shrines with an occasional touch
of anime.
Below, Bollywood fellow travelers.
Timothy Siciliano Torture in pastel shades.
Donald Fels Even the Wizard of Oz is working for a living.
Lari Pittman Remote but dreamy. The veil covers nothing.
Also Lari Pittman:
Cheryl dos Remedios Chinese dragon (five claws for the emperor) in a girl’s girl narrative.
Manish Arora Who needs to sit down?
Maki Tamura– Everything together.
Angela Fraleigh. Overheated romance, anyone?
Finally, more Bolly than Holly, a fake movie campaign from Eva and Franco Mattes.
not only is Dil Se one of my favorite Bollywood flicks, that dance is so mind-boggling that simply thinking about it makes my brain tingle.