[...] India's Bollywood and its raunchy song and dance numbers and wet saris compete with Mr. Bean and women's wrestling in the Sadat music and film market, a chaotic cacophony of sound where it's always night inside and it's always packed. A VCD costs about 100 afghanis, or $2, still a lot of money in Afghanistan, a country ravaged by decades of war and chaos and with a shattered economy. Many people, too poor to buy, come just to watch the video discs that are constantly and loudly running in every shop, or to play the video games also on display.

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