There is a 1985 South Indian film about a woman who performs classical dance with an artificial foot. The Telugu title is MAYURI (name, means peacock, dir. Singeetham Srinivasa Rao); the Bombay Hindi remake is NACHE MAYURI (1986, dir T. Rama Rao from S.S.R.'s script). Both films star Sudha Chandran, upon whose true story the fictional films are based. Chandran spoke on Chicago TV about a year ago while on a national dance tour. MAYURI is a dancer who loses her foot after an auto accident. Her family wants her to accept the loss of her career. Her fiance-manager deserts her. She gets an artificial foot but finds it is not flexible enough for dancing. The inventor makes one that is. She perseveres through (often bloody) pain to learn to dance again. She becomes a star. Her old boyfriend, smelling money, turns up and wants to start over. She shuts him out of her house, window by window, and dances alone. Not a common story for Indian film, it not only has a female protagonist who takes charge of her life against great odds, but it shows the mechanics of designing, manufacturing, fitting etc. artificial limbs and is educational about the rights and aspirations of people with handicaps. Sudha Chandran no longer plays ingenue leads but she is quite visible in Hindi films. If anyone wants to see another culture's point-of-view, the Tamil-dubbed version of MAYURI has English subtitles--from Thomson Video (based in Dubai but has U.S. distrib--the Telugu MAYURI and NACHE MAYURI do not.