Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking

Name: Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking
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ISBN: 9780156030847

ISBN-10: 0156030845

ISBN-13: 9780156030847

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stephen Alter

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 8/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Author's Note



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 Two 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


Index