http://www.tabletmag.com A New Read on Jewish Life Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:20:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/7960/the-queens-of-bollywood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-queens-of-bollywood http://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/7960/the-queens-of-bollywood/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:00:32 +0000 Vox Tablet http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=7960
Rose Ezra. Ruby Myers. Farhat Ezekiel Nadira. From the earliest years of Bollywood, these and other Jewish actresses garnered starring roles. And while they may have looked somewhat exotic to moviegoers, they came from Baghdadi Jewish families who had been living in India for decades. Reporter Eric Molinsky speaks to film scholars, as well as friends and relatives of these once-beloved but now mostly forgotten stars of Indian cinema, to find out how they became the “go-to girls” for leading female roles in the 1920s, ’30s, and beyond.

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