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Fakhra was born in the Napier Rd. red-light district. Her mother is a heroin addict, and Fakhra began work as a nautch (dancing girl) at age 11. The nautch tradition goes back centuries in certain parts of the subcontinent; sometimes the dancing girls are legitimate performers, often they're prostitutes. Fakhra started sex work immediately after she began menstruating. A customer bought her virginity for $2,000, a set of gold jewelry and a Rado watch. "Whatever you're going to do," she told him, "do it quickly because I want to go home...
James Ivory's Householder, Friday, Dec. 13, 7 and 9 p.m.; Ivory's Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls, and Bombay Talkie, Saturday, Dec. 14, 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. Ivory will speak Saturday...
Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls. a quasi-documentary short about an Indian queen of sexpot film stars. Sequinned and bare-bellied she dances a love-making literally evocative of the real thing. Harvard Square...
...into one elephantine moving picture. The parallels between Japan's first bid for a slice of the supermovie market and the Biblical pageantry of Samuel Bronston and Dino de Laurentiis are numbing: skyscraper temples to sinister gods, unseen choirs zum-zumming on the sound track, corps of nimble nautch dancers in every other reel. And when it comes to uplifting the masses or spreading the gospel, Buddha's producers are no more missionary than the others. They...
Great blocks of ice were brought in to cool the pool, and enough pent-up steam was allowed to escape into the London air to sweat out a whole year's hangovers. The cavernous chambers were abustle with well-stacked nautch girls, brushing bare bellies with Indian waiters serving cha-patties. The only washroom was carefully labeled "Co-educational-On Your Honor Please!" Behind the bar a lily-twined manneken-pis arched a thoughtful stream at a stone death's head that looked like many a guest would feel on the morning after. There were two dozen freshly...