Bollywood

Love, Sex, and Pushing the Envelope in Bollywood

Sandip Roy

From New America Media and FirstPost: “Sex is now our guilty pleasure [in India],” says Imran Khan. "Watching it on screen gives us the comforting illusion that our taboos are shrinking as if liberation was all about libido. “But people’s personal freedoms are being eroded around them,” Khan adds. “And they just don’t notice.” Meanwhile around us, the nanny state keeps expanding. No drinking until you are 25. No dancing in the pubs. No commentary on gods and goddesses in your art. No talking about anything that can upset anybody....

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