Hooray for Bollywood!India's Catholic Church is going Bollywood with a feature film that deals with sex, relationships, religion, and AIDS. Aisa Kyon Hota Hain ("Why does this happen?") is a story of a mother raising her son on her own, and it includes all the staples of Bollywood hits: singing, dancing, and lots of drama. Father Dominic Emmanuel, spokesman for the Archdiocese arch·di·o·cese n. The district under an archbishop's jurisdiction. arch  di·oc of Delhi and the producer of the film, told The Telegraph (Calcutta), "In India the one medium that attracts mass attention, whether literate or unlettered, rich or poor, small or big, low caste caste [Port., casta=basket], ranked groups based on heredity within rigid systems of social stratification, especially those that constitute Hindu India. Some scholars, in fact, deny that true caste systems are found outside India. or upper caste, is cinema." As far as he knows, this is the first time the Catholic Church has produced a major movie. With some blockbuster names behind it, including stars Rati Agnihotri Rati Agnihotri (Hindi: रति अग्निहोत्रि, Urdu: رتِ اَگنِہوترِ) was born on December 10, 1960 to a Punjabi family in , Johnny Lever, and director Mahesh Bhatt, Emmanuel hopes the movie will have universal appeal and not come off as "preachy preach·y adj. preach·i·er, preach·i·est Inclined or given to tedious and excessive moralizing; didactic. preach ." |
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