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Welcome to our production of "Art" in Mumbai- a metropolis of high contradictions and ever-widening polarities.
Here, high 'art' wrestles with Bollywood kitsch; where those that can afford ' haute couture' can't pronounce it correctly;
where the most pressing use of a cellular phone is to call the wife or servant from the elevator to have the house-
slippers and a glass of cold water ready; where everybody is a model and those that aren't, claim to have step with
one; where a 'Bandit Queen' is considered fit to run the country, but the film can't run at all; where the beggar children can't
return to their ring-leaders till they've begged their daily Quota; where the rich children don't come home till
they've blown ten thousand of paper's black money; where the literate don't vote for the illiterates who rule the
country; where most people think ABCL are the first four letters of the alphabet; where depending on your accent, a
request for 'coke' could quench your thirst or satiate your sexual cravings; and where finally. infidelity has become a form of fidelity! |
