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The Bombay Talkies is a 1995 Indian film directed by Deepa Mehta, about three women from different backgrounds in Mumbai. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. In November 2011, when an English-language DVD of the film was produced in India, it created a stir with its dialogue in English and Hindi. The DVD also had a trailer for Lajja that was set to Hindi lyrics with English over it. The film is nominated for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards and won "Best Film Not In The English Language" at the 8th Genie Awards. In a movie theatre in 1930s Bombay, a film is shown to an audience of Indian women. The narrator, Chatura (Shabana Azmi), tells us that she has been coming to the theatre ever since she was a young girl. She describes her favourite actor in the film, the much-loved Hindu romantic hero, Dilip Kumar. She remembers how her father disapproved of going to the cinema and used to beat her for going there. As a child, Chatura lived in Udaipur with her parents and here she met Shanti (Kamaljit Kaur), also from Udaipur. They became inseparable friends. In the following years, Chatura and Shanti spent much time together, even as their families grew increasingly estranged from one another. However, a great shock was in store for them as a result of a Hindu taboo. The two girls were expected to marry. Chatura's father, who had been treating them as almost equals all their childhoods, now wanted the best for his eldest daughter and arranged her marriage to a man from Udaipur, Ravi (Kabir Bedi), whom he considered suitable for her because she was from his own family group, the Bhains of Jodhpurwala. It was a good match. Chatura's fiancé was a widower with a young son, Pratap. Shanti, however, was from the Jodhpur branch of Bhains and not from Jodhpurwala. Her father found it impossible to unite her with Ravi's son because she was from a different group. In spite of this split in their relationships, the two girls remained close friends and after growing up in Udaipur they both moved to Bombay to pursue careers as actresses together at the Imperial Film Company. In the early 1940s, Shanti and Chatura began making films together. They loved their work and loved the public adulation that was showered on them. Their lives were going very well. Then the war broke out and the problems which they faced were completely different from those of any other women in India at that time. The girls' love for their work brought them to Bombay, but there they discovered a new world, a whole new set of opportunities and a way of looking at life that differed completely from that in their home villages in Rajasthan. cfa1e77820
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