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Jointly published by English Edition and Frog Books, the 144-page coffee tabler provides a rare insight into different aspects of form (from camerawork to use of sound, editing and special effects) and content (creation of drama, story-telling, acting, music and songs and dances) which are peculiar to Bollywood cinema. "This is the first book of its kind that analysis the elements that go into contemporary Hindi filmmaking," claims the author, Derek Bose, a senior journalist and filmmaker. "While much has been written on Hollywood cinema, even on Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, there is nothing on Bollywood beyond a few books on film history and biographies." Profusely illustrated with stills from landmark films since Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra to the latest Mallika Sherawat starrers, it offers the reader a chance to live the dreams of many lifetimes with tales of heroism and cowardice, love and hate, justice and equity and of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, which make for the ‘magical realism’ Hindi mainstream cinema offers. Bose has earlier authored a definitive biography on songster Kishore Kumar, Method in Madness. — MF |
The
timing could not be more opportune. In keeping with the rising
popularity of Hindi cinema abroad, a new book on film industry, Bollywood
Unplugged-Deconstructing Cinema in Black and White, has just been
released in Mumbai.