Samosay ki Dalia

All this talk of movies on the front page reminds me of something from when I was a child. At that time in Allahabad, Palace Theater used to almost exclusively show English movies, though some of them arrived there years after their release. The crowd was always the small-town gentility and most of them were very happy not to be sitting with the general hoi polloi. Until...

This one English movie arrived and every rickshaw wallah, paan wallah and even one of our chaprasis went to see it several times because apparently they all fell in love with the heroine, the beautiful Hedy Lamarr.

Our chaprasi Govind finally tells us we all should go and see this great movie...Samosay ki Dalia. Of course, he was puzzled that there were no samosas in the movie but I guess half way through he didn’t care.

I have still not seen Cecil DeMille’s Samson and Delilah because I don’t think I’ll be able to see it without cracking up.