Hollywood Story: Indian Films

Mazar E Sharif Dept: In the fall of 2009 he arrived in the United States for the year-long Youth Exchange and Study YES program, an exclusive State Department initiative. Despite his fascination with American movies, the 15-year-old had every intention of returning to Afghanistan, according to The Star. But Javan’s is not a Hollywood story. Too complicated for the big screen, his odyssey took him from Mazar-e-Sharif at the age of 15 to a school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he made few friends and never really settled and sT. CATHARINES, ONT.—While everyone around him opted for Indian films, Ali Javan, a young Afghan from Mazar-e-Sharif, fell in love with Hollywood. He felt that way even as more than a dozen of his fellow exchange students vanished that year, reappearing on the other side of the Peace Bridge as refugee claimants in Canada. As reported in the news.
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