Moulin Rouge! was featured on all three, and when the trailers included a snippet of “Chamma Chamma” from the Bollywood film China Gate, suddenly the film was on everyone’s watchlist. Back then, we found out about new films mostly through posters plastered on unsuspecting walls, trailers on film-related news shows (like BBC’s Talking Movies), and music videos on MTV. But I could hardly avoid the film when all my classmates were talking about it. I had already planned to watch it because McGregor was the star, and I’d been a fan of his since his performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi. The film was inescapable in Kolkata in 2001, especially when we learned that a Hindi song was part of the soundtrack. There was a great deal of discourse and excitement around the film within my social circle alone.īaz Luhrmann’s third entry in his Red Curtain Trilogy stars Ewan McGregor as a naïve young writer named Christian who falls in love with Satine ( Nicole Kidman), a courtesan at the Moulin Rouge. As far as I could tell, my family were the only voracious consumers of English-language films and television shows, and we were the rare people who spent hours discussing what we’d watched. It’s not like we didn’t have access to Hollywood films, but most people seemed less interested in pop culture than I was.
Picture, if you will, the bustling city of Kolkata, India suddenly united by an unlikely phenomenon – a frenzy around the arrival of Moulin Rouge! It’s been 20 years since the jukebox musical was released, and I can’t disassociate the film from the hype surrounding it in my home city.
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