Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00Bollywood, renowned for its singing, dancing, and melodrama, but its Jews?

00:14Who would have thought it?

00:16Jewish superstars of India's silver screen.

00:20This is their story.

00:35When Indian cinema began over a hundred years ago, it was taboo for Hindu and Islamic women

00:40to perform in public.

00:43But in a nation of over a billion Hindus, almost 300 million Muslims, and millions of

00:53Christians, were a few thousand Jews.

01:03It was a nice Jewish girl called Ruby Myers who shattered the taboo on female acting.

01:08In the early 1920s, she was the silent era queen of the silver screen.

01:14She went by the stage name of Sulochana, which means the one with the beautiful eyes.

01:22Sulochana blazed a trail other Jewish women soon followed.

01:26Welcome to Bollywood, Pramila.

01:29Sulochana, Rose, and Pramila were powerful, iconic actresses of their time.

01:36But then Nadira came along.

01:43She had this great dress, and it was so fittingly tight that she was not able to sit all through

01:53the shooting of that song.

01:56So to rest, they had this big huge board at a certain angle, and she used to rest on that

02:03because the dress should not get spoiled, the dress should not, you know, kind of split.

02:08This is Bollywood's unknown story.

02:11The Jewish superstars who put the shalom into Bollywood.