Women dripping diamonds and pashminas and young kids with anglicised names thronged the theatre. Clearly Hindi movies spell magic. The continent and accent are immaterial. Indians across the globe are bound by their love for a cinema that tells dramatic stories with song and dance. For decades, our cinema has been regarded as inferior, infra dig, a glorified nautanki quite unlike the sophisticated art produced in Hollywood.
Indian films have a distinct magic of their own.
They are an influence that continues to bind diverse people across the world.