Bollywood Rose*

A fun India-spin on blood-diamond adventure tales.

A 'Bollywood-spin' on blood-diamond intrigue. Enjoy, 

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Amlan Satan's in India tracking Baron Goldfinger's blood-diamonds, war-gems used to finance terrorism.

Bollywood is India's equivalent of Hollywood, and its movie-industry sign parallels the beloved California sign we know.

Amlan Satan visits a Bollywood movie-set and falls in love with a lovely actress named Shazia who studied at Cambridge.

AMLAN SATAN (code-name: Storm-Shadow): I remain focused on this pirate-heist of the Goldfinger diamonds in India now.

Amlan steals an Indian taxi cab en-route to the bank in which he's walking in dressed as a summertime Scarecrow.

BANK MANAGER: Business that day was very normal, and we didn't anticipate this 'Scarecrow' visit!

Scarecrow (Amlan Satan) walks into the India bank and shows the attending manager his water-gun, saying he's a thespian!

He's escorted to the safe-box room where he's to deposit his own diamonds but reveals his water-gun is filled with acid!

Amlan burns a hole through Goldfinger's safe-box and switches his blood-diamonds with the fakes he's brought.

The water-gun Satan used to burn through the safe-box was inserted with a glass-tube containing potent acid.

Amlan not only took diamonds but also rupee-money and bearer-bonds from Goldfinger's safe-box(es).

BANK MANAGER: We estimate $20 (USD-equiv) stolen from Goldfinger, but we're not sure if this is a media-stunt!

Amlan exchanges the blood-diamonds for assets in an Interpol-relations Swiss account in Delhi, India next week.

He then attends a colored Indian saree fashion-show with his beloved Shazia, no longer a Scarecrow of India!

SHAZIA: I love you!

AMLAN: We'll attend a religious street-festival in Delhi, my sweetheart.

SHAZIA: I'm taking Satan to an Olympics-trial rifle-shooting contest in India now.

AMLAN: India has much to offer to the romantic, but I took Shazia to a drive-in theater.

Shazia has become Amlan Satan's proverbial 'Bollywood-rose' and he wonders what to do with his blood-diamond hops.

He decides to do some personal downtime snowboarding in the power-white Himalayas in India!

He has to take a business-class (Air India) flight to Zurich and bids Shazia farewell.

AMLAN: The food on Air India is sweet and zesty!

Back in Europe, Amlan reads an Indian film-industry magazine and has daydreams about his beloved Shazia.

He has to get back to work and later recruits a diamond-pirate crew to lift more of Goldfinger's terrorism-financing gems!

He takes Goldfinger's Vanderbilt blue-sapphire diamond in Zurich...what a quill!

SATAN: Back in the USA, I decided to purchase a colored India hero-comic book and think of Shazia.

Will Amlan Satan and Bollywood-rose Shazia reunite? Is this a tale of political-adventure...or romance-diary?

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)