May it be Sholay or DDLJ, railways be it Indian or Swiss, or some other, has always helped in being used in Indian Cinema. From thematic uses to climaxes the Indian film makers have always relentlessly used the ever dynamic icon that is the Railway. Say for instance Ray's Nayak, most parts in the film has been shot based on a 1st class compartment in the Indian Railways leaving out some surreal se...quences. What else matters is that Bollywood and the Indian Railways has always been the best of the relevant icons to represent India in the international arena. They have been like the two tracks of a railway line moving parallel to each other. I just can recollect the basis of this essay as in 2007 I heard one of my seniors then studying Journalism in Jamia Milia being asked in a job interview by Vir Sanghvi about the same relation described here.