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Recent spate of Bollywood films being set in small-town India
Updated On: 25 August, 2013 06:43 AM IST | | Shakti Shetty
Filmmakers insist it has nothing to do with economic meltdown but believe the audience has an instant connect with such locales
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Remember that iconic scene from Mother India (1957) in which Nargis’s character pleads with her fellow villagers not to leave the village? To her credit, they stayed back. But over the following years, Hindi cinema constantly kept trudging towards the bigger towns. The transition was complete even before we entered the new millennium. However, in the recent past, there has been a brave attempt by filmmakers to go back to the smaller towns — if not full-fledged villages.
Shuddh Desi Romance, starring Sushant Singh Rajput and Parineeti Chopra, is set in Jaipur as it revolves around how the small-town youth view modern-day relationshipsu00a0
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