Bollywood: The Pocket Essential (Pocket Essentials (Trafalgar))

✍ Scribed by Ashok Banker

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 97
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Bombay's prolific Hindi-language film industry is more than just a giant entertainment juggernaut for 1 billion-plus Indians worldwide. It's a part of Indian culture, language, fashion and lifestyles. It's also a great bundle of contradictions and contrasts, like India itself. Thrillers, horror, murder mysteries, courtroom dramas, Hong Kong-style action gunfests, romantic comedies, soap operas, mythological costume dramas...they're all blended with surprising skill into the musical boy-meets-girl formula of Bollywood. The results are a bizarre, overblown mixture of high concept, ethnic colour, traditional values, high-pitched emotional drama, sizzling sensuality and music, always music. What's in this book? As well as an introductory essay, a selection of 25 major seminal films are examined in entertaining, intimate detail. There's also a section on the current state of the industry, the star system, film music and a list of additional books and films that will help you enjoy and make sense of the new Hindi movie showing at your nearest multiplex.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 6
Hindi And Hip:......Page 8
Raja Harishchandra (1913)......Page 12
Shakuntala (1920)......Page 13
Alam Ara (1931)......Page 15
Hunterwali (1935)......Page 16
Devdas (1935)......Page 18
Acchut Kanya (1936)......Page 19
Kismet (1943)......Page 22
Awara (1951)......Page 23
Do Bigha Zameen (1953)......Page 25
CID (1956)......Page 26
Pyaasa (1957)......Page 28
Mother India (1957)......Page 30
Madhumati (1958)......Page 31
Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)......Page 32
Mughal-e-Azam (1960)......Page 35
Kanoon (1960)......Page 37
Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam (1962)......Page 38
Sangam (1964)......Page 40
Waqt (1965)......Page 42
Teesri Manzil (1966)......Page 43
Jewel Thief (1967)......Page 45
Upkaar (1967)......Page 46
Padosan (1968)......Page 47
Johnny Mera Naam (1970)......Page 49
Mera Naam Joker (1970)......Page 50
Zanjeer (1973)......Page 52
Bobby (1973)......Page 54
Sholay (1975)......Page 55
Deewar (1975)......Page 58
Jai Santoshi Maa (1975)......Page 60
Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)......Page 61
Trishul (1978)......Page 62
Arth (1982)......Page 65
Betaab (1983)......Page 67
Ankush (1985)......Page 68
Ghayal (1990)......Page 69
Roja (1993)......Page 70
Baazigar (1993)......Page 72
Aankhen (1993)......Page 73
Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994)......Page 75
Bandit Queen (1994)......Page 77
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995)......Page 79
Rangeela (1995)......Page 81
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)......Page 82
Sarfarosh (1999)......Page 83
Mohabbatein (2000)......Page 85
Kaho Na Pyar Hai (2000)......Page 87
Gadar: A Love Story (2001)......Page 89
Lagaan (2001)......Page 90
Magazines (English)......Page 93
Websites......Page 94
The Essential Library......Page 95