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The Curious Case of the Missing Bollywood Villain

It was the summer of 1980. We were bang in the middle of summer vacations, a heady time for kids in those days, for it meant indulging in guilty pleasures like watching an endless number of Bollywood hits on the new-fangled machine called the VCR. Quite unlike the kids of today, we were allowed that liberty only in the summer vacations. Parents were strict those days. I was lounging around in my pyjamas, enjoying yet another Bollywood movie, this time of my brother’s choice. We were seven kids in all, including cousins come down for the mandatory summer stay-over. We were in my dar | Click Here...