A mathematics professor dresses up in drag with bra, fishnet stockings, skirt etc to replicate a sizzling Bollywood ''cabaret'' number by yesteryear actress Helen for a New York book festival. The academic''s account of the event forms part of myriad experiences compiled in a new book of essays that takes the reader through various genres of cinema. The anthology "The Popcorn Essayists" edited by Jai Arjun Singh and published by Tranquebar is an account of what films have done to 13 contemporary writers. When asked to do a reading for the Brooklyn Book Festival which invited participants with the rider of "taking a risk and performing something on public stage they have never done before" Manil Suri decides to pay homage to Helen by dancing like her. "For the final verse, dressed in just my bra and skirt, I feel as liberated as Helen," says Suri who danced to the 1971 film "Caravan.
- 3/16/2011
- Filmicafe
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