LIKE millions of households all over the world, my family nearly choked over
breakfast at the recent news that Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad,
has decided to ban Bollywood films on TV.
They are, he reckons, linked to real violence and decadence. And he wants to
commission research to see if he’s right.
Now as we all know, Bollywood is Bombay’s hugely successful movie industry,
highly popular all over the world, but particularly among Asian communities. It
churns out musicals with strong moral plots where good triumphs over evil and
true love wins out in the end. They’re the kind…
