Aishwarya Rai and Mr Bean popular in Kandahar 27.09.2005 In the home city Taliban, music and TV were crimes punishable by beatings and jail just a few years ago. As Reuters reports, India's Bollywood and its raunchy song and dance numbers and wet saris compete with Mr Bean and women's wrestling in the Sadat music and film market, a chaotic cacophony of sound where it's always night inside and it's always packed. "I like Mr Bean, he is very funny," says 12-year-old Mohammed Rahim, from behind the counter of his father's Ariana VCD Center. "I watch him all the time." Ariana is one of the dozen or so shops in the market. Rahim says he sells 50 VCDs of British comedian Rowan Atkinson's famously bumbling Mr Bean every week. A VCD costs about 100 afghanis, or $2, still a lot of money in Afghanistan, a country ravaged by decades of war and chaos and with a shattered economy. Many people, too poor to buy, come just to watch the video discs that are constantly and loudly running in every shop, or to play the video games also on display. << | >> |
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