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Stone Dust © Oxfam Australia

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Uploaded on Jul 18, 2008

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Stone Dust © Oxfam Australia

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Monday Matinee at Elgin Talkies

The crowd lines up exchanging their 20 rupees for three hours of entertainment. The theater's blue interior is riddled in mildew and age, and the roof has given away in parts to a view of the rafters. Watching a movie in the large but cramped confines of Elgin Talkies in the company of atleast 100 odd men is a lively experience. Huddling around the cinema screen, the audience makes itself seen and heard at every turn of the plot - whistling at the wet saree number, egging on the Bobby Deol as he takes on ten baddies, applauding and often repeating melodramatic dialogue about lost values and dancing and singing to the songs. Once it becomes clear that all ends well, the audience often does not bother to wait for the last scene and starts making its way out. This is how far twenty ruppees will get you at Elgin if you are in search for some entertainment that is.

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Uploaded on Jul 4, 2008

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