It was pure coincidence that I wrote a post about Gope’s “beautiful Jewish wife” shortly before a screening of the film Shalom Bollywood at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. I did not know about this event until my friend and blog reader Ann informed me in an e-mail that my post was “fantastically timed.” But I also must thank Swarup (whom all this blog’s readers should know by now) for the article link that he sent in comments to the last post. I had no idea that I was about to receive this very interesting info!
It was also a coincidence that just a little while earlier, I wrote a post about Nadira that linked to other articles on the same subject and featured the photo that is now being used as the “profile” pic on Shalom Bollywood‘s Facebook page. Nonetheless, I am glad that I have unintentionally been promoting this project, because I should have posted about it sooner. Now I am able to post about it knowingly, and I can even add a couple of trailer/excerpt clips. These are very entertaining, and I hope that it won’t be long before I get to see the entire film.
Dances on the Footpath 
Thanks for sharing these clips, Richard – both were pretty interesting. As I’ve mentioned before, I came across a fair bit of information about Jews in Bollywood while I was researching an article, so this reminded me of that.
It amused me that the second clip began with things that the West tends to associate with India: the Kama Sutra, curry, and Bollywood – because I was thinking that while Bollywood is certainly very high on the list of a lot of Indians’ likes, curry (simply because it isn’t a pan-Indian concept) or the Kama Sutra almost certainly isn’t. Cricket, perhaps. :-)
shalom richard :-) todah rabbah, bhote shukriah. many thanks and please excuse my spelling. the presentation at the library was very interesting. the film is not yet completed but looks to have great archival and documentary information.