Last BEYOND THE BEYOND post of 2006

Susmita

http://www3.youtube.com/watch?v=TrKirCqXIjU&mode=related&search=

It's seven years old now, but this has still got to be the single most culturally incendiary Bollywood item-number I've yet seen
(and yes, I've seen plenty). It's Sushmita Sen in "Fiza: In Search of Her Brother." The missing brother turns out to be a mujihadeen assassin.

FIZA is an intensely political film, and the problem it was sidling up to and hip-swaying at in 2000 AD is now a problem as big as the world.

Special plus for exceptionally dogged fans of global pop culture: Sushmita Sen performing that same song, "Mehboom Mere,"
but live on stage, and with a pop-song interlude sung by, uh, Sting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDsHWS5-rcU

Happy new year.