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Bombay talkie / Merchant Ivory Productions ; producer, Ismail Merchant ; screenplay, R. Prawer Jhabvala, James Ivory ; director, James Ivory.
LIBRA DVD 017 881
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Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 009 184
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Merchant Ivory collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture industry--India--Drama.
- Motion picture industry.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- India.
- Motion picture actors or actresses--India--Drama.
- Motion picture actors or actresses.
- Motion pictures, Indic.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Romance films.
- Motion pictures, Indic.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + pamphlet ([8] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen presentation.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Criterion Collection : Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, 2003.
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A troubled romance laced with barbed wit and pointed melodrama. An affectionate view of the Indian film industry (aka Bollywood).
- Participant:
- Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Zia Mohyeddin, Aparna Sen, Utpal Dutt, Nadira, Jalal Agha, Anwar Ali, Mohan Nadkarni.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Subrata Mitra ; art director, A. Ranga Raj ; editor, David Gladwell ; music, Shankar Jaikishan ; costume designer, Shaikh Hasan.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.78:1 ; "enhanced for widescreen tvs."
- Special features include: "Helen, Queen of the Nautch girls" documentary short about the Bollywood dancer ; conversation with the filmmakers.
- Contains:
- Helen, queen of the nautch girls.
- ISBN:
- 0780026772
- OCLC:
- 53715845
- Publisher Number:
- 037429179123
- BOM020 Home Vision Entertainment
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