In a society like India where acknowledgement of desire and sexual instinct has been repressed, the cabaret became an outlet for many
The cabaret sequence was air-dropped into Indian films without any real reason for its existence. To be sure, there were a few odd restaurants having the equivalent of a floor show in a handful of towns, but it was hardly as if the cabaret was in any way a part of the real or even imagined life of an Indian in the 1960s.
When it came to the cabaret, it was as if we were happy to accept as a matter of fact the truth, a representation that could not have been farther away from reality. The idea of a young woman in revealing western clothes slithering sinuously as she went from table to table, while couples decorously went about having their dinner was not an everyday experience in India.
When it came to the cabaret, it was as if we were happy to accept as a matter of fact the truth, a representation that could not have been farther away from reality. The idea of a young woman in revealing western clothes slithering sinuously as she went from table to table, while couples decorously went about having their dinner was not an everyday experience in India.