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Fantasies of a Bollywood love thief : inside the world of Indian moviemaking / Stephen Alter.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.I8 A73 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alter, Stephen
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--India.
- Motion pictures.
- India.
- Motion picture industry--India.
- Motion picture industry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Orlando : Harcourt, [2007]
- Summary:
- Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance, action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in the world, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a year, which are watched by passionate fans around the globe. Stephen Alter--a writer who grew up in India and has inside access to Bollywood--acts as translator and tour guide in this firsthand look into the world of Bombay films. Following the making of a Bollywood version of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindi movies and reveals the actors, directors, musicians, and feats of artifice that make them so compelling and unique. From the blessing ceremony performed each time a movie starts shooting to the secrets behind the song- and-dance extravaganzas, Fantasies of a Bollywood Love-Thief is a beguiling introduction to the rituals and culture of a moviemaking industry so similar to and yet utterly different from our own.
- Contents:
- Shakespeare remixed
- Filmi Masala
- Maqbool
- One way to Bombay
- Monsoon brainstorm
- Sex, films, and SMS
- Scripting Omkara
- Film city
- 1,001 narrations
- The poet of Pali Hills
- Musical sitting
- Dev Saab's Durbar
- Gunslingers
- Poster artist
- Sun-N-Sand
- Sunset Bollywood
- Item numbers
- Bandit queen
- Going for take
- Rajkamal studios
- The brick kiln
- How to handle actors
- Cypra
- Javed Akhtar
- The beast with tow backs
- Shyam Benegal
- Mood! Mood! Mood!
- Govind Nihalani
- Politics
- Call sheet
- Time to die
- Throwing color
- The trade
- The salt of love
- Credits roll
- House full.
- Notes:
- "A Harvest Original."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780156030847
- 0156030845
- OCLC:
- 76828866
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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