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Leave Disco Dancer Alone!
Sudha Rajagopalan

Pardesi (1957) was the first Indo-Soviet film, based on the travels to India of the merchant from Tver, Afanasy Nikitin, in the fifteenth century, recounts Sudha Rajagopalan in Leave Disco Dancer Alone! ( www.yodapress.com). The movie’s production was symptomatic of the new goodwill and amicable relations between Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Nehru’s India, she describes. “Indian popular cinema, imported under Khrushchev, began to display a shift from the social engagement of early Indian popular films to the ‘hedonistic’ films of the Sixties made for the Westernised urban audience,” the author continues. “These were often films with love triangles, whose wealthy, urbane and macho heroes bore no greater social responsibility and Soviet audiences responded to these changes warmly.” Interestingly, Rajagopalan traces references that deride the practice of choosing Indian popular films at the expense of art films. Engaging narrative.

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