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By Hejratullah Ekhtiyar in Jalalabad, Asia Times Online, Jan. 12, 2012
Jalalabad has earned the nickname Little Mumbai after the Indian city renowned for its bustling Bollywood film industry. The Afghan version in the southeast of the country draws excited crowds to see locally made films, even though they are shown in tents as the city has no cinema. This hits filmmakers hard as they struggle to make a buck, while also living under the threat "of being beheaded with a knife by the Taliban".
Editor's notes: Hejratullah Ekhtiyar is an IWPR-trained reporter in Nangarhar, Afghanistan. (This article originally appeared in Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Used with permission.)