Thursday, August 11, 2011

Caste regime of Amitabh's Bollywood roles. He played rajput, brahmin, vaishya, baidya, kayasth, khatri, bhumihar and only once a jat, but never a yadav. He was a muslim in a couple of films, but you could sense that he was from a 'good family' even when he was a coolie. The angry young man was angry because he'd to stand next to the lower caste scum in seemingly endless queues for everything. http://ping.fm/EDsFA

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