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Mr Amitabh Chopra
Outward appearance
A tiny middle-aged Asian gentleman, slim, in a green suit, white shirt, red tie. Sits reading a magazine with the cover folded over.Inside information
Works in the Sweet Shoppe in Waterloo Station. Hates chocolate. But it is a clean and orderly environment. Has to control feelings of shame that he does not at his age run his own business.What he is doing or thinking
Reading what he thinks of as a dirty magazine, the February 1995 issue of Stardust. He deliberately sat a seat away from another Indian man to prevent being discovered. The cover shows a pretty girl taking a sudsy bath in a bikini and floppy hat.
SEX, it shrieks. Then tiny letters: the industry's . Then huge:
ORGY, tiny letters: of immorality exposed.Mr Chopra loves Bollywood movies. Stardust is devoted to them, in over thirty countries. Sanjay-Raveena STRIP each other, it promises, with Sanjay and Raveena both in tummy-revealing pervy leather glowering into the camera. MAMTA ACCUSED! How Aamir Faked his Illness to Save his Marriage .
It's a magazine for scandal-soaked women. Aamir loves the movies, and wants to read about them. He extracts from the scandals, news about movies like Karan-Arjun . In between there are ads for skin lighteners, wedding dresses, movie-star address finders, Bombay Jungle mix Bollywood Fever and AT&T.
Where does he fit in? Amitabh has always been a dreamer. In his mind at night he sees gods and heroes, riding elephants besaddled in red and gold. He hears the sweeping sounds of orchestra and voices.
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