Bollywood's Cassidy and Sundance

Okay, so you probably think all I do is watch cricket and movies; more hindi movies than English, too. You're right. While sitting at work entering some tour diaries and covering the latest update in the Woolmer murder, one of the production chaps chose Sony Max to try out some new video recording stuff, and mixed work with pleasure by recording the better half of Ram Lakhan . A classic Subhash Ghai (no, I'm not a fan of his, this is just coincidence) potboiler from the Eighties, this movie had it all. This was the biggest hit that the Anil Kapoor-Jackie Shroff combo had, though they combined for many better movies. Watching the two of them, young, handsome, fit and in their prime as heroes, made me wonder about their longevity. Both debuted well over 25 years ago (Kapoor in '79 with a bit role in Hamare Tumare , Shroff in '82 with a similar role in Dev Anand's Swami Dada ) and are still ticking in 2007, though in very different modes. Kapoor is at the top of his ga