>Putin is a Raj Kapoor han, supposedly.
>
>For the life of me I can't figure put why the Soviets
>didn't promote their entertainment industry more
>aggressively overseas. It would have really improved
>the image of the country abroad. They had great war
>movies and comedies. Outside of Tarkovsky and
>Eisenstein's work, pretty much the only Soviet film
>anybody's ever heard of abroad is Moscow Does't
>Believe in Tears. Bummer.
>
>Disco Dancer's cult status is part of the role it
>played in the USSR's disco period, back when ABBA was
>supplanting Deep Purple as the cool young Soviet
>person's foreign band of choice. Rumor has it that
>ABBA had some kind of special merchandising deal with
>the Soviet government.
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Talking of Bollywood, Russia and Mithun Chakraborty, here is a recent
Bollywood film with Mithun filmed in, hold your breath, St. Petersburg:
*Lucky Director:* Radhika Rao, Vinay Sapru *Producer:* T-Series, Sohail Production *Cast:* Salman Khan, Sneha Ullal, Mithun Chakraborty
Set against the romantic backdrop of St.Pertersberg Russia, /Lucky/ is a tale of love that brings together two people who would probably have never met if not for the hand of destiny.
Lucky (Sneha Ullal) is the quintessential dreamer - soft, beautiful and gentle. Her one big belief - that if you search from the bottom of your heart then you can find the rainbow, not just the rainbow but also the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow.
One calm "Pertersbergian” morning Lucky is riding to school and calling on all her guardian angels to grant her a miracle - a teeny weeny, itsy bitsy one - "please God I wish from the bottom of my heart that the school is shut today."
But sometimes your deepest wish can turn your worst nightmare. Her journey to school becomes her most desperate journey of survival. Caught unaware by an unexpected wave of insurgency in St. Petersberg, Lucky tries to flee to safety. But there is no safety. As dread and fear overtake, she meets a stranger, a fellow countryman Adita Sekhri (Salman Khan) who's smart, wicked, charming and a true blue sophisticate.
They have nothing in common...she's excessively naive and he's too blasé. They are bound together by just one common goal...to reach home safely.
And now begins an unforgettable journey - from burning highways and mouldy cemeteries to abandoned theatres and icy snowdrifts. A journey where violence and tragedy stalk them constantly... where there is little time for talk and survival comes only from being constantly on guard.
As they march through savage ambushes and the icy wilderness of a foreign land, they discover the limits of their endurance. They also discover that love can creep in on you...though there is no time for it.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1303939,001100030010.htm