“Unthreatening?” Hiralal laughed, a bitter, wonderful sound. “The Magistrate banned my Alibaba for showing a man kissing a woman’s hand. Unthreatening is not our destiny.”
The old man had been right. The name was ugly. It was accidental. It was a creole child of empire and ambition. bengali film industry name
Dhirendra snorted. “That sounds like a joke. ‘Tolly’—from Tollygunge? The marshy suburb where the British have their club? We are not making films for sahibs playing polo.” “Unthreatening