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The train ride as a technological fantasy The train ride as a technological fantasy ByTrisha GuptaTrisha Gupta / Updated: May 16, 2021, 06:00 IST A still from the film The train In popular 1970s Hindi cinema, the train became central to an imagined world of infrastructural achievement and finesse. Sadly, we re still content to live in the dream In the 1960s and ’70s, the train in India cinema starts to appear as a space of sophistication and luxury. Whether in art films’ like Satyajit Ray s Nayak (which I mentioned last week), or a full-on commercial Hindi film like the racy Rajesh Khanna-starrer The Train, the upper class railway compartment represents high standards of comfort and hospitality. This is true despite the fact that Ray, ever the realist, has a senior Calcutta executive in Nayak express annoyance that he can t even get a beer on the AC Deluxe Express – precursor to the Poorva Express, the train between Calcutta and Delhi before the Rajdhani Express came

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