BOLLYWOOD NIGHT.(tour by Indian film stars)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 03-JUN-02

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The other day, Bharat Jotwani, dressed in black leather and carrying two cell phones, was standing on the fifteen-yard line in the Continental Airlines Arena, in the Meadowlands. He was trying to imagine what the arena, which had been set up for an indoor football game between the New Jersey Gladiators and the New York Dragons, would look like once it was pulsing with lasers and suffused with fake smoke. "Not only wild, they'll go very wild," he said, sounding more hopeful than sure.

Jotwani, who is fifty years old, is a compact man with mournful eyes and a slim mustache. Growing up in Pune, a city eighty miles from Bombay, he wanted to join the Indian Army, but his parents, who had...

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