[ads1]
Bollywood’s India: Hindi Cinema as a Guide to Contemporary India
Exploring the nature of mainstream Hindi cinema, the strikingly illustrated Bollywood’s India examines its non realistic depictions of everyday life in India and what it reveals about Indian society. Showing how escapism and entertainment function in Bollywood cinema, Rachel Dwyer argues that Hindi cinema s interpretations of India over the last two decades are a reliable guide to understanding the nation s changing hopes and dreams. She looks at the ways Bollywood has imagined and portrayed the unity and diversity of the country what it believes and feels, as well as life at home and in public. Using Dwyer’s two decades spent working with filmmakers and discussing movies with critics and moviegoers, Bollywood’s India a 272 pages book is an illuminating look at Hindi cinema.” This superb book is everything we could have expected from a major authority on Indian cinema. It shows both how India has shaped Bollywood and Bollywood has shaped the Indian imagination. It will be indispensable for scholars and a delight for the general reader.
[ecp code=”4″]
Bollywood Themes – by Tushar A. Amin
Bollywood Themes is embellished with rare photographs and visually stunning design, it’s is a rich spread dedicated to the lovers of Hindi cinema across the world. Whether it is talking about the ‘Mother Figure’, an inseparable element of Bollywood or the ‘Great Indian Joint Family’ or the ‘Singing and Dancing’, the book deals with all the important themes recurring time and again in mainstream Hindi Films. Browsing through the stories and the accompanying visuals, the reader can understand how intrinsically the rich emotional tapestry of Bollywood movies is woven into the warps and wefts of our day-to-day life and how these films are the perfect escape route from mundane reality into the dreamy, romantic and glorious world of Bollywood. A 160 pages book has its forward written by director and choreographer Farah Khan.
[ads2]