Actress Neha Dhupia famously said 15 years ago and reiterated 10 years later, “Only sex and Shah Rukh Khan sell in India”. Khan has since struggled to maintain his Shah-like princely state, but Sex shows no sign of abdicating his Pink Velvet throne. You don’t know about the type of bird-bees from the old Bollywood legends. Rather less cryptic or allegorical, significantly more indicative than indicative, and pardon the phrase – very in-your-face. Multiplexes have been closed for months, and clearly, Smut is catching more eyeballs than any tinsel supernova. In fact, the word ‘smut’ still has the hue of a guilt-ridden old world. “Porn,” on the other hand, is shedding much of its value-laden notoriety while emerging undeniably, as the mother of all bestsellers. Or, many more of those who took India to the Olympic podium in the audience rankings by the way Might choose to rewrite it with the vocabulary… MILF.
Something is really cooking on the Indian pan. what are the ingredients…
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