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...people's lives. Overnight, Guinness mania swept the country as ordinary Indians, determined to achieve immortality, grew record-busting mustaches, walked vast distances with milk bottles on their heads, ate light bulbs and wrote poems on rice grains. Among those persistent enough to make it into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined 6.15 meters. He told me he wanted to saw the nails off but would do so only if someone paid him $200,000. ("I haven't had a good night's sleep," he lamented, "since 1965.") When...
...Shah and Dutt are not alone; nearly every Indian moviemaker or shaker has schmoozed with the Mob at some point. "They get the calls and over a period of time they are seduced," says Shridhar Vagal, who heads the Bombay police's crime department. "Before they know it, they have accepted some help and then they go on making incremental compromises." According to Mahesh Bhatt, writer-producer of this year's hit thriller Raaz: "Some people may have embarrassing connections with the underworld, but most film people are just victims." Apparently, victims of a sustained assault by the underworld. Victims...