Salam Rushdie writes a film analysis titled “Out of Kansas” based off of The Wizard of Oz. In this review, he begins by discussing journeys that have caused him to read these stories and compare and contrast Bollywood stories with Hollywood. Rushdie writes of places and Oz:
England was mentioned it felt as exciting as any voyage beyond the rainbow. It may be hard to believe, but England seemed as wonderful a prospect as Oz
Rushdie compares his own life stories within the story of Oz and associates real-life people within characters of Oz,
The Wizard, however, was right there in Bombay. My father, Anis Ahmed
Rushdie, was a magical parent of young children, but he was prone to explosions,
thunderous rages, bolts of emotional lightning, puffs of dragon smoke, and other
menaces of the type also practiced by Oz, the Great and Powerful, the !rst
Wizard De-luxe.