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"For instance, Padosi was about an outsider reed Britisher attempting to divide two good neighbors Thakur and Mirza. Now this was unique to India because the American war of independence happened much before cinema took birth in the US. And Britain was not fighting any war of independence in an independent India too, it was interesting to observe how the socioeconomic contours influenced key features like romance, villainy and music. The late 1940s and the 1950s were a period of pain with people getting uprooted from their homes."