From: udcrusd@meaddata.com (Sylvia D'Cruz)
Subject: Re: CITY OF JOY ( Movie with Indian Actors )
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:09:07 GMT
Distribution: usa

A report on the above:-
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                         Copyright 1992 Southam Inc.
                             The Gazette (Montreal)

                     March 20, 1992, Friday, FINAL EDITION

City of Joy  makes star a happy man

PAUL WELLS; GAZETTE

LENNOXVILLE

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   Clearly, Bishop's University doesn't get a lot of visits from international
sex symbols.

   "Ohh, my GOD!!" dozens of young women shouted on Wednesday evening as Patrick
Swayze climbed out of his limousine and crept through the adoring throng toward
a news conference before the Quebec premiere of his new film,  City of Joy.

   For the star of Dirty Dancing, Ghost and the FBI surf epic Point Break, it
was the kind of performance that wins him swooning reviews from crowds around
the world these days: just show up, grin sheepishly, and blow a few kisses. The
crowd at Bishop's, like crowds everywhere, ate it up.

   But in  City of Joy,  Swazye told reporters a few minutes later, he was
trying for a different kind of success.

   "My insides were screaming to find out what the next level was for an actor,
and to see whether I had what it took to do it," he said.

   In that context,  City of Joy  - the story of an American doctor who
befriends a rickshaw driver in Calcutta - was like a gift from the heavens, he
said.

   "It was the finest script, the most powerful story I'd had a chance to read,
much less be involved with as an actor," Swayze said.

   He appears to have made a similar impact in India. Shabana Azmi, a prominent
Indian actress who performs in  City of Joy,  remembered a phone call from her
husband in Bombay while she was filming in Calcutta.

   "He said, "Look, what's all this Swayze about? I am going out in Bombay and
my hand is being kissed by 16-year-old girls because my wife is working with
Patrick Swayze in Calcutta, 1,000 miles away!' "

   Filming  City of Joy  involved a lot more than star-gazing, said
Montreal-born producer Jake Eberts.

   Fourteen script drafts, three attempts to build a replica of the Calcutta
slum where the movie is set, and the looming threat of the Indian government
stopping filming to placate protesters made the shoot "an incredible struggle,"
Eberts said.

   Some Indians said the film showed only the worst aspects of life in Calcutta.
Director Roland Joffe dismissed their attempts to stop filming as "pinpricks of
annoyance," and Swayze said they missed the point.

   The film is offers North Americans a rare glimpse of hope in the face of
adversity, he said.

   "It just doesn't make sense to this Western white-boy mind how these people
can get by with so little and find such happiness in their lives."
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