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These business school grads have traded Sweden's famed 6-hour workday for the uncertainty (and hilarity) of a career as Bollywood extras - and are loving it.
'Beecy' is what 'busy' sounds like when two struggling actors from Andheri describe their current schedule. But then, their real accent has yet to make it into Hindi films and TV where these Swedish men have played everything but Swedish men.
Over the last nine months on screens big and small, Johan Bartoli (26) and Hampus Bergqvist (25) have morphed into German engineers, Russian hippies, generic white badminton referees and the recurring Bollywood favourite - British officers. Yet this golden-haired, light-eyed duo from Stockholm refuses to call the Indian entertainment industry, racist. "It is massive and chaotic but somehow it works," says Bartoli, who uses the same line to describe his new home, Mumbai.
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Two Swedes on how to break into Bollywood - Times of India
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These business school grads have traded Sweden's famed 6-hour workday for the uncertainty (and hilarity) of a career as Bollywood extras - and are loving it.
'Beecy' is what 'busy' sounds like when two struggling actors from Andheri describe their current schedule. But then, their real accent has yet to make it into Hindi films and TV where these Swedish men have played everything but Swedish men.
Over the last nine months on screens big and small, Johan Bartoli (26) and Hampus Bergqvist (25) have morphed into German engineers, Russian hippies, generic white badminton referees and the recurring Bollywood favourite - British officers. Yet this golden-haired, light-eyed duo from Stockholm refuses to call the Indian entertainment industry, racist. "It is massive and chaotic but somehow it works," says Bartoli, who uses the same line to describe his new home, Mumbai.
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Two Swedes on how to break into Bollywood - Times of India
