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Sunday, December 26, 2004

The Karl Popper of Bollywood

I really think this business of predicting trends is an over-simplification. Of the 200 films that are made every year, we tend to look at three or four handpicked ones and say, well, this film did well because of a patriotic subject, or sex films are the future trend, when in fact sleazy films like Her Nights, as a genre, have been prevalent for years.

Shah Rukh Khan debunks the historicism prevalent in the Hindi film industry.
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