Mrs Balbir spices up her life


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 10 Aug 2003

THE story has all the ingredients for a Bollywood script, complete with the dramatic opening of a little girl watching helplessly as her parents are gunned down. 

She is left in a convent and ends up as a teen bride to a poor man. She manages to overcome the odds but fate deals two cruel blows: the death of her daughter and, a year later, her son. But in the end, she manages to crawl out of her despair to achieve fortune and fame and the support of her family. 

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