Happy New Year shakes up Bollywood men's club
By Tony Tharakan in New Delhi | China Daily | Updated: 2014-11-13 08:51
A record opening-day debut for a Bollywood movie that happens to be directed by a woman is shaking up the men's-only club of moviemakers in the list of India's highest grossing movies.
Farah Khan's new movie, a heist caper that doubles as a song-and-dance extravaganza, is a rare blockbuster by a woman moviemaker in India, with the world's largest movie industry by ticket sales. Two of Khan's three previous movies in the last decade were hits, too, but not as big as Happy New Year.
The choreographer-turned-moviemaker says withstanding pressure from people who expect her to make a certain kind of cinema because of her gender is her biggest success.
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