Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

Hooray For BOLLYWOOD

“What better way to forget poverty, corruption, pollution, warring factions, danger, or starvation than with a love story?”

Mili longs to become a movie star. Munna is a streetwise guy with no steady work. Urging Munna to find a good job, Mili breaks into song on the streets of Mumbai. Nearby bystanders begin dancing along with the music’s pulsing beat. As the song plays on, the setting suddenly shifts to the seashore.

This is one scene from Ram Gopal Varma’s 1995 film, or and it’s

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