source: BBC news
No insult to my beloved Bollywood, but when I heard about the recent story of 86 year old Indian politician Narayan Dutt Tiwari being allegedly caught in bed with three (that’s THREE!) women, immediately scenes from movies popped into my head. A clear case of life imitating art, hai na?
Scenes like this on with Kadar Khan in Desh Premee (1982):
Or this one from Dayavan (1988) with Amrish Puri.
From NPR, January 4, 2010:
Narayan Dutt Tiwari does not have the look of a Lothario. He does not strut or swagger; he is not sleek or lean. Age has left its mark on his round, baggy face and crumpled frame. Yet accounts of his sexual escapades have stunned India: Tiwari is 86 years old. Few outside India had heard of Tiwari until recently, when a local TV channel aired a video that appears to show him in bed with three young women. The video astonished many Indians, partly because of Tiwari’s age but mostly because he happens to be governor of one of India’s largest states — Andhra Pradesh, in the south. Or rather, he was the governor. This week, as the scandal raged around him, he resigned. America has a long history of outing public figures who stray from the straight and narrow, be they presidents, talk show hosts, or — as Tiger Woods has discovered to his cost — golf champions. Not so in India. The country has more than 1.1 billion people. Many are still very poor, with far more to worry about than the sexual adventures of their leaders. (source)
NPR.ORG has more on the Tiwari incident that you can listen to HERE.
Indie Quill has posted on this and more filth HERE.
What is this world coming to? These things should only take place in a nice Bollywood film, not in real life! Tell me what Bollywood films you remember seeing that have included such lascivious scenes. Many thanks to Bollywooddeewana for supplying another image of corruption to add to the mix. This is from the 1979 film Lahu Ke Do Rang.
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