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A Century of Bollywood
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81. 1998—The state of Pakistan
honors Dilip Kumar with
its highest civilian honor,
the Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Order
of Excellence). He remains
the only Indian film personality—and
only the
second Indian—to be so
honored by a nation that
has fought four wars with
India.
82. 1999—In a global
online poll by the BBC,
Amitabh Bachchan is
voted—by a large margin
—the Superstar of the
Millennium. (Runners-up
were Sir Laurence Olivier
and Sir Alec Guinness.) A
year later, he becomes the
first Indian actor to have
a waxwork made in his
likeness by the Madame
Tussauds wax museum in
London.
83. 2001—Ashutosh
Gowariker’s 224-minutelong,
British period drama
magnum opus Lagaan
(Land Tax), revolv i ng
Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit become national heartthrobs wi
Hum Aapke Hain Koun . . . !
Authors collecti
around a fictitious cricket match set in British India between a motley
team of peasants and their rulers, is the third Indian film to receive a Best
Foreign Language Film nomination from the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences.
84. 2002—Bollywood captures and inspires the popular imagination of the
U.K. in the new millennium. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bollywood-inspired
musical, Bombay Dreams, opens to packed houses in London’s Apollo
Victoria Theatre. An exhibition of posters representing Hindi film history
titled, “Cinema India—The Art of Bollywood,” is held at London’s
Victoria and Albert Museum. The Selfridges’ chain of department? stores
in England hosts a “Bollywood Season,” at one of its London stores, where