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Bollywood 'insult' song angers Hindu activists

Jun 4, 2012

A Hindu nationalist group filed a court case on Monday seeking to ban the release of Bollywood film "Shanghai" over satirical lyrics that describe India as a land of diseases and cow dung. full story

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