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03-01-2003, 06:33 PM
Taliban hits the big screen
By Anamika Singh BOMBAY
India's Bollywood film industry has departed from its usual romantic musicals to shoot the true story of a woman's struggle to escape the horrors of Afghanistan's former Taliban regime.
Escape from Taliban stars controversial actress Manisha Koirala as Sushmita Bandopadhyay, a woman from the eastern city of Calcutta who lived under the hardline militia after marrying an Afghan.
The film is based on Bandopadhyay's autobiography. The daughter of an Indian army officer, she fell in love with Jaanbaaz Khan, an Afghan moneylender in Calcutta.
Against the wishes of her family, she traveled to his country in 1989 to be his wife, but there her romantic dream was shattered.
"I was greeted with dead bodies, the result of a Russian air raid. The second shock was to discover that my husband was already married," Bandhopadhyay said.
The rest of the story (http://www.metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-8/cultent/taliban_hits_the.htm)
By Anamika Singh BOMBAY
India's Bollywood film industry has departed from its usual romantic musicals to shoot the true story of a woman's struggle to escape the horrors of Afghanistan's former Taliban regime.
Escape from Taliban stars controversial actress Manisha Koirala as Sushmita Bandopadhyay, a woman from the eastern city of Calcutta who lived under the hardline militia after marrying an Afghan.
The film is based on Bandopadhyay's autobiography. The daughter of an Indian army officer, she fell in love with Jaanbaaz Khan, an Afghan moneylender in Calcutta.
Against the wishes of her family, she traveled to his country in 1989 to be his wife, but there her romantic dream was shattered.
"I was greeted with dead bodies, the result of a Russian air raid. The second shock was to discover that my husband was already married," Bandhopadhyay said.
The rest of the story (http://www.metimes.com/2K3/issue2003-8/cultent/taliban_hits_the.htm)