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| | BBC - London - Entertainment - Theatre - Bombay Dreams, a review - |
 | | Just when the modern musical seemed lost to pop compilations or adaptations of movies, a new one has arrived that combines both those strands, but is in fact a completely original piece of writing. |
 | | The show is Bombay Dreams, a part-pastiche but all-panache stage version of the kind of corny romantic movie musicals that regularly emanate from Bollywood. |
 | | All are pressed into the service of a story, created by comic actress and writer Meera Syal, that follows its hero, Akaash, on his passage from Bombay slum dweller to movie star, with wit and drenched in sublime melody. |
| www.bbc.co.uk /london/entertainment/theatre/bombay_dreams.shtml (488 words) |
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