Indian Beauty

Ecstatic sloe eyes, fertile hips, velvety breasts, and the sentimental, throbbing music that inspires languorous dancing--the films born in the studios of Bombay have given rise to an aesthetic that can be summed up in three syllables that are at once sweet and percussive: Bollywood. A knowing dose of eroticism and kitsch that is not content with just invading cinema screens of the Indian diaspora, Bollywood has influenced fashion and has entered all aspects of Western culture.