Overview

Indian cinema hasn’t been as much talked about worldwide since probably the first works of Satyajit Ray which were shown at the Cannes Film Festival in the 1950s-1960s. Renewed interest for the biggest film industry in the world doesn’t mean its complexity is well understood abroad or even inside India itself. Bollywood especially seems to have taken over all the other industries as if to become the only representative for Indian cinema; and Hindi cinema struggles to be known as anything else than Bollywood. Still, you’d probably have to go back to the 1970s to see, in Bombay films, such uproar and desire to give the audiences a more diverse cinema, either by renewing the song-and-dance formula, or by simply negating it. In this interview-based book, Hindi film technicians, artists and industrialists from all horizons and all age groups speak in detail about their work, and give their input on the present situation of Hindi cinema as well as its future. Whether this future will really be bright or not, one could not say; but that Hindi cinema is now living fascinating times definitely cannot be denied.  

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Author:   Ophelie Wiel
Publisher:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9789353286552

ISBN 10:   9353286557
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   11 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Shabana Azmi Introduction 1. From Single Screen Theaters to Multiplexes: The Indian Divide Jyothi Kapur Das, Producer for Viacom18 Motion Pictures Avtar Panesar, Vice-President of International Operations at Yash Raj Films Nazir Hossein, Exhibitor, Owner of Liberty Cinema 2. The “Bollywood” Show Atul Mongia, Casting Director Sneha Khanwalkar, Music Composer Manoshi Nath and Rushi Sharma, Costume Designers Anjum Rajabali, Scriptwriter 3. A New Generation in Mumbai Dibakar Banerjee, Director and Producer Mayank Shekhar, Film Critic 4. Women in the Hindi Film Industry The Female Technicians of Hindi Cinema Namrata Rao, Editor Neha Parti Matiyani, Director of Photography The Young Actresses of Hindi Cinema Kalki Koechlin, Actress Richa Chadha, Actress 5. Censorship and Sexuality: The Taboos of Hindi Cinema Pankaja Thakur, Ex-CEO of the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC) Onir, Director Sridhar Rangayan, Director of the LGBT Film Festival ‘Kashish’ in Mumbai 6. The Forgotten Genres: Animation and Documentary Gitanjali Rao, Director Nishtha Jain, Documentary Filmmaker Conclusion Acknowledgment

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Shah is that rare writer who combines the topical energy of journalism with the respective depth and breadth of scholarship. Her television book is, by the same token, that exceedingly rare approach to the subject that is neither superficial nor ponderous. This is a text that navigates seamlessly between reportage, social analysis and personal memoir. It brings policy debates alive and mines everyday experience for its structural significance. -- William Mazzarella, * Neukom Family Professor Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago *

"Shah is that rare writer who combines the topical energy of journalism with the respective depth and breadth of scholarship. Her television book is, by the same token, that exceedingly rare approach to the subject that is neither superficial nor ponderous. This is a text that navigates seamlessly between reportage, social analysis and personal memoir. It brings policy debates alive and mines everyday experience for its structural significance.--William Mazzarella, ""Neukom Family Professor Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago """

Author Information

Ophélie Wiel teaches Film Studies at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She moved to India from France a few years ago and fell in love with Mumbai and the Hindi film industry. She is a noted film critic and a renowned specialist of Indian cinema and classic Hollywood cinema in France. Her previous publications include the book Bollywood et les autres: Voyage au coeur du cinéma indien (Bollywood and Others: A Journey into Indian Cinema), published in 2011.

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