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Kapur losing his touch?  Is Shekhar Kapur losing his touch?  May
13, 2009 12:18 IST  Take a world-renowned director, a popular
child actor, an Academy Award winning actress, a studly
Bollywood hero and one of the world's most luxurious hotels.
Now, mix them all together.  What do you get?  One bad, confused
advertisement.  Yes, Shekhar Kapur -- of Elizabeth fame -- has
directed a commercial for Schweppes, a seemingly innocuous
beverage brand.  And yet Kapur has turned the brand into
something else: A daring rendezvous between lovers, an
Orientalist's fantasy, a mishmash of popular culture.  The
advertisement features Moulin Rouge star Nicole Kidman as our
fair lady (in this case, extremely fair lady), while the dapper,
swarthy Arjun Rampal serves as hero.  The crux of the story is
that our lady in white, Nicole Kidman, is travelling by night to
Udaipur's magical Lake Palace, where she is to m