August 11, 2008

Vintage Bollywood Dance Off

You got served, Vyjayanthimala.

Metafilter had an excellent thread today about Bollywood dancer Helen, whose Anglo-Burmese ethnic background and sultry hip thrusts earned her many a vamp role but very few leads. It links to a 1973 Merchant-Ivory documentary called Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls which is interesting to watch for its ridiculous assertion that Bollywood dance films would bring about the destruction of Indian culture.

Posted by Karen

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