Bollywood makes its own Lolita: "MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan has finished shooting for a film about the obsessive love of an old man for a teenage girl, a story the director says was not inspired by the controversial 1955 novel 'Lolita.'
Director Ram Gopal Varma, known for unconventional films that break away from Bollywood's song-and-dance staple, says 'Nishabd' (Silence) is about an old man's emotional tumult juxtaposed with awareness of his age.

'People say it is similar because it is about the love of an elderly man for a younger girl. My film is not an adaptation of Lolita,' Varma said.
Indeed, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a pubescent 12 while Varma's heroine -- played by newcomer Jiah Khan -- is 18, an age perhaps chosen to skirt trouble from censors and avoid hurting conservative Indian sensibilities.
'Wait for the surprise,' Varma said, when asked if his heroine meets the same fate as Lolita, who dies in childbirth.
Nabokov's 'Lolita' dealt with the love of a middle-aged man for a 12-year-old girl, for whom he coined the word 'nymphet' to describe the intense attraction.
The story, considered scandalous in the 1950s, was rejected by several prominent American publishers before being finally published. The book generated controversy in Italy and was banned in France, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Elsewhere in the world, parts o"