Träume in Pink, Gold, Orange

At first Christiane Grefe mentions the high security standards of the film studios of Bollywood. On the streets there are a lot of people, that have different kinds of jobs, who would do a lot to visit the Bollywood film factory. The actors seem to be superstars in India and are admired by the Indians for entertaining them and also for the fact that the workers can forget their life in Mumbai for a while. The singers manage to do this by singing, dancing and performing dramatic love stories that can touch hearts.

But the everyday life in the dream factory consists, apart from tailors that make the costumes, of bored guys and girls and of course of waiting. In the film business there are also some famous choreographers like Vaibhavi Merchant whose biography is performed on the stage. She received a lot of prizes and has worked for 16 productions of films in 2004.

Choreography plays an important part in such films because the dances can connect the different parts like love, comedy and gangster elements or tell their own story. The choreographies also combine different dance styles and unit them.  All together about 800 Bollywood films are released every year.

The Gateway of India

3 a) Dwight Huntsinger is a bold and cheeky lawyer from Boston who has to negotiate with manufacturers because his firm wants to find outsourcing deals to move their production to India. He is frustrated because of his divorce and wants to risk something new. When Dwight spends his time in India he doesn’t want to try food from India or visit traditional sights, so he is very intolerant and disrespectful.

b) Dwight uses negative comparisons like grief (l. 39), ordeal (l. 28) and captivity (l. 55) to express his attitude towards India. He feels like he is caught in Mumbai and he just came there for the money, not for culture. He only sees the Indian potential for outsourcing deals but doesn’t want to get to know the Indian culture. There’s a metaphor in line 35 when Dwight compares his trip to India to the hell. This also symbolizes his attitude to see just the bad things and not to give up the comfort he is used to from the western world. The food stands for Dwight’s not existing will to give up old habits and to try something new.