Bollywood will be clothing us In his old photos when he used to be a student in Calcutta in the fifties, my father used to wear a shirt buttoned all the way up to the neck. He must have felt hot, but he was fashionable. Like all the young Indian people at that time, he loved the actor Dey Anand, who used to wear a shirt in the same way. It’s true that all that glitters is not gold, but that glitters makes people daydream. In the meantime in India, we dream of Bollywood. A few years ago, I was with the actress Preity Zinta in her own RV on the location of "Veer Zaara". She had been commissioned a story by the BBC and needed some help. They wanted her to debunk the myth of worshipping movie stars as gods in front of the crowd. She thought of starting the story like this “People think that movie stars never go to the restroom. I must admit that. It’s true. That’s why we are pieces of shit.” She thought it was so funny and then she pulled her head back and started laughing out loud. Her hair was dyed with henna and she was wearing a yellow stage costume, made up of a pair of trousers and a long shirt. She said “let’s bet the yellow salwar-kameez will be in fashion in a couple of months, shall we?” She had awareness of the facts. The shades and the black top she had worn in a film the previous year had been a smash hit. Without a doubt that attire would be cloned hundreds of thousands of times.