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Mera Naam Joker

Author : K A Abbas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9351365867
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Mera Naam Joker written by K A Abbas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novelized version of the cult film, Mera Naam JokerIt was by all accounts one of the biggest gambles in Hindi cinema of the time: five years in the making, with a running time of over four hours and two intervals, including two of the best-known circus troupes of India and the Soviet Union. Add to that an outstanding musical score. Mera Naam Joker was to be Raj Kapoor's magnum opus. Whetting audience appetite were indications that it would also be the Showman's most autobiographical film. Nothing, it seemed, could come between the film and box-office glory. Shockingly, the film bombed at the box-office - and so badly that RK Films, one of India's foremost studios, was almost wiped out in the wake of that disaster. Interestingly enough, over the last forty years, the film has attained a cult status and is one of the highestselling home videos in India.At the time of the film's release, its writer K.A. Abbas, in an act years ahead of its time, also published the novelized version of the film to great commercial success. Mera Naam Joker: The Complete Story is that book. A perceptive introduction by Suresh Kohli, analysing the tortuous making of the film and the reasons for its failure, also offers an insight into the creative process through which a story transforms into a film.

Mera Naam Joker

Author : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Publisher : [Delhi] : Hind Pocket Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mera Naam Joker written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and published by [Delhi] : Hind Pocket Books. This book was released on 1970 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Essential Guide to Bollywood

Author : Subhash K. Jha
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788174363787
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (637 download)

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Book Synopsis The Essential Guide to Bollywood by : Subhash K. Jha

Download or read book The Essential Guide to Bollywood written by Subhash K. Jha and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book picks 200 of the best Hindi films ever produced and catalogues them. Densely packed and visually appealing, the guide is written in a reader-friendly, accessible style to enable even those not familiar with Hindi to see and understand popular Bollywood films. Entries are arranged genre-wise as drama, comedy and romance, among other categories.

Khullam Khulla

Author : Rishi Kapoor
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9352643070
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Khullam Khulla written by Rishi Kapoor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son of a famous father. Father of a famous son. I am the hyphen between them. Only, Rishi Kapoor was and is so much more. Few actors in Hindi cinema have had this sort of a career arc: from the gawky adolescent pining for his schoolteacher (Mera Naam Joker, 1970) to the naughty ninety-year-old (Kapoor & Sons, 2016), Rishi Kapoor has regaled audiences for close to fifty years. He won a National Award for his debut, became an overnight sensation with his first film as a leading man (Bobby, 1973), and carved a niche for himself with a string of romantic musical blockbusters in an era known for its angst-ridden films. He was the youth icon that is still the toast of the satellite TV circuit. The songs he lip-synced are the bread and butter of all radio stations even today. Then there was the second coming after a brief hiatus in the 1990s - as one of the finest actors in mainstream Hindi cinema with powerhouse performances in films like Do Dooni Chaar, D-Day, Agneepath and others.Characteristically candid, Rishi Kapoor brings Punjabi brio to the writing of Khullam Khulla. This is as up close and personal a biography as any fan could have hoped for. He writes about growing up in the shadow of a legendary father, skipping school to act in Mera Naam Joker, the workings of the musical hits of the era, an encounter with Dawood Ibrahim, his heroines (their working relationship, the gossip and the frisson that was sometimes real), his approach to his craft, his tryst with clinical depression, and more. A foreword by Ranbir Kapoor and a stirring afterword by Neetu Singh bookend the warmest, most dil se biography an Indian star has ever penned.

Kapoors

Author : Madhu Jain
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184758138
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Kapoors written by Madhu Jain and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We are like the Corleones in The Godfather’—Randhir Kapoor There is no film family quite like the Kapoors. A family of professional actors and directors, they span almost eighty years of film-making in India, from the 1920s to the present. Each decade in the history of Hindi films has had at least one Kapoor—if not more—playing a large part in defining it. Never before have four generations of this family—or five, if you include Bashesharnath Kapoor, Prithviraj Kapoor’s father, who played the judge in Awara—been brought together in one book. The Kapoors details the professional careers and personal lives of each generation—box-office successes and failures, the ideologies that informed their work, the larger-than-life Kapoor weddings and Holi celebrations, their extraordinary romantic liaisons and family relationships, their love for food and their dark passages with alcohol. Based on extensive personal interviews conducted over seven years with family members and friends, Madhu Jain goes behind the façade of each member of the Kapoor clan to reveal what makes them tick. The Kapoors resembles the films that the great showman Raj Kapoor made: grand and sweeping, with moments of high drama and touching emotion. ‘Few books on Indian cinema have been written with such wit, clarity and sparkle’—Outlook ‘Jain writes in a language that is simple and pithy. . . it will keep alive public interest in the Kapoors who refuse to call it a day’—Telegraph ‘Immensely readable...will surely find a place in the Indian cineaste’s library’—Biblio

Raj Kapoor

Author : Ritu Nanda
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9352770412
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Raj Kapoor written by Ritu Nanda and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raj Kapoor, the creator of some of Hindi cinema's most enduring classics, is one of the greatest film-makers India has ever produced. As producer, director, actor, editor, storyteller, he blazed a trail for subsequent generations of film-makers to follow and aspire to. He was also known to the world as an extraordinary and controversial showman, an entertainer par excellence, someone who created the template for Hindi cinema.Raj Kapoor: The One and Only Showman is a unique experiment, both an autobiography and a biography. While the autobiography uses his own words, culled from interviews, journals and anecdotes, to provide an intimate glimpse into the mind of a genius, the biography is an attempt to record for posterity the lesser-known facets of his magnificent personality through the recollections of his family, colleagues and friends. As revealing as it is engaging, this is a fascinating portrait of the man regarded as the last of the true movie moguls of Indian cinema.

Raj Kapoor Speaks

Author : Ritu Nanda
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780670049523
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Raj Kapoor Speaks written by Ritu Nanda and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raj Kapoor Is Many Things To Many People: Producer, Director, Actor, Editor, Musician, Story-Teller, A Man Of Many Moods, An Acknowledged Patriarch Of India S Film-Making Industry. He Is Also Known To The World As An Extraordinary Showman, Lover, Idealist, Sage And Reformer. Raj Kapoor Has Always Been A Controversial Figure. Although His Films Always Evoked Extreme Reactions, He Knew That Mass Audiences Had Made Him, And He Never Deserted Them. There Will Be Endless Debates About His Exact Contribution To The Art Of Cinema, But Few Can Deny That He Was The Greatest Entertainer Known To Indian Films, The Last True Movie Mogul Of Indian Cinema. Raj Kapoor Worked With The Cinematic Tradition He Inherited, Made Modifications And Added New Elements To It, And Thus Created A Popular Art Form That Was Consonant With His Temperament And View Of Life. He Infused A Distinctive Mode Of Popular Romantic Sensibility Into Indian Cinema. Raj Kapoor Has Been Portrayed In Various Ways. He Was Imperious And Majestic, A Dreamer Of Big Dreams; His Creations Were Clearly Several Times Larger That The R.K. Studios, Which Remains A Living Monument To One Man S Vision, Energy And Enterprise. In This Book His Daughter Records The Lesser-Known Facets Of His Magnificent Personality, Without Interpreting His Thoughts, So That When Readers Thumb Through The Pages, They May Feel His Presence.

101 Hit Films of Indian Cinema

Author : Renu Saran
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 935083653X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book 101 Hit Films of Indian Cinema written by Renu Saran and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿLove is a very strong feeling. It won't happen to you every day, all the time. But once it does, you can't control it. What exactly is love, you ask? Well there is no definition to tell what it really is, but if you're in love, you just seem to know, no one needs to tell you that. Jay Pratap, an ordinary guy, in search of his 'The One'. He starts his story with ?The End? then tells how he got to that point. His friends, Akriti, Nikita, Sanjay and Gaurav are with him in this journey, in hope that they would meet love of their lives too. So join Jay and his friends in this trip full of love, which will provoke you to think ?Hey, this exact thing has happened to me too? and which will remind you not to lose faith in love, because believe it or not, but ?YOU Are The ONE For SOMEONE?.

Raj Kapoor

Author : Rahul Rawail
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9388630181
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Raj Kapoor written by Rahul Rawail and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If cinema did not exist, I would be non-existent.' - Raj Kapoor In this warm, thoughtful memoir, veteran filmmaker Rahul Rawail goes back to his days spent in R.K. Studios where he was nurtured and taught to handle the ropes of filmmaking from the Master himself-Raj Kapoor. Through stories only he can tell, Rawail delves not only into the techniques of the legendary filmmaker, but also into hitherto unknown aspects of Raj Kapoor's eccentric personality-his quirky sense of humour, his insights into life, the relationship he shared with his crew and his associations with artists of three generations. The book also examines how the lessons he learnt under the tutelage of Raj Kapoor carried Rahul Rawail through directing his own blockbuster films including Love Story, Betaab, Arjun and Dacait. Raj Kapoor: The Master at Work offers unique insights into what it took for Raj Kapoor to be an exceptional filmmaker, with his understanding of human emotions, virtues of music and the art of visual storytelling. Within these pages, one sees behind the enigma who lived and breathed cinema, in his before-seen role as a teacher, mentor, parent and guru.

THIS DAY THAT YEAR

Author : K V Laxminarayan aka LAX
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THIS DAY THAT YEAR written by K V Laxminarayan aka LAX and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Day That Year as a title came from a TV program of the 90s called “This Week That Year”, that I used to watch on TV. I could relate to it very well as I remembered the release dates of most of the movies of the late 60s and early 70s and when the host spoke about it, I went down my memory lane and loved the experience. Once I became part of Facebook in 2009, I found a great forum to share my experiences of movie releases in Bombay then and now Mumbai. I found a lot of like-minded people who could relate to my post and shared their experiences and thoughts as comments. Quite a few of them encouraged me to share it with a larger audience and hence suggested publishing it. I never thought of doing it but when people kept telling me regularly to do it, I decided to give it a try, and here comes my experiences and thoughts of the movies released in the late 60s and early 70s. Hope you like what you read, though many of the statements would look repetitive. But do accept the experiences of a teenager who turns into a man in 1973.

Awāra

Author : Gayatri Chatterjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780143029809
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Awāra written by Gayatri Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a classic of popular indian cinema that made Raj Kapoor a household name in India, Russian, China and the Middle East. In this brilliant study of the path-breaking film, Gayatri, Chatterjee examines the politics that informed the film, the inter-personal relationships, the language of the camera, the chemistry between Raj Kapoor and Nargis, and the enduring appeal of the tramp.

Symphonic Journey of Shankar Jaikishan

Author : Dr. Dattatreya Pujari, Dr. Geetha Pujari, M. Dharmakirthi
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1647339510
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Symphonic Journey of Shankar Jaikishan written by Dr. Dattatreya Pujari, Dr. Geetha Pujari, M. Dharmakirthi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shankar Jaikishan (SJ )made a tumultuous debut, with a blockbuster hit Barsat, in 1949. They were young, did not belong to the elite strata of society. Their only capital was their infinite talent and burning desire. Their journey from Barsat to Gouri in 1989 was a sustained uphill journey. They broke all records of record sales and box office collections. At one point in their career, SJ was synonymous with Silver Jubilee. Forty jubilee hits, with Barsat running for 100 plus weeks. Math They won nine Filmfare Awards and nominated almost every year, 1959 to 1974. This book covers their arduous journey of matchless success on a path of thorns. Dr. Dattatreya and Dr. Geetha Pujari, have covered this journey. They met Shankar a few times and had their script approved by the maestro, way back in 1984. They published this book in Hindi, Shankar Jaikishan ki Swar Sadhana. This was in 2002.

The Secret Politics of Our Desires

Author : Ashis Nandy
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781856495165
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Politics of Our Desires written by Ashis Nandy and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema. It provokes a thinking of cinema as political in the widest sense - from its importance in ideas of nation and national cultural formation to class and gender.

Journey Of A Common Man Born In Independent India

Author : Anil Malik
Publisher : BFC Publications
ISBN 13 : 9391455182
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Journey Of A Common Man Born In Independent India written by Anil Malik and published by BFC Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about a law-abiding common man’s journey and what he sees and experiences during his life span, about happenings in various fields like politics, scandal/scams, personalities, sports, achievement/disappointments, Entertainment, and lastly his personal journey. The things are broken into decade-wise chapters. Readers of this book will feel as if it is part of their journey also.

National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

Author : Sumita S. Chakravarty
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789858
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987 written by Sumita S. Chakravarty and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ideological construction of Indian national identity. Informed by theoretical developments in film theory, cultural studies, postcolonial discourse, and “Third World” cinema, the book identifies the major genres and movements within Bombay cinema since Independence and uses them to enter larger cultural debates about questions of identity, authenticity, citizenship, and collectivity. Chakravarty examines numerous films of the period, including Guide (Vijay Anand, 1965), Shri 420 [The gentleman cheat] (Raj Kapoor, 1955), and Bhumika [The role] (Shyam Benegal, 1977). She shows how “imperso-nation,” played out in masquerade and disguise, has characterized the representation of national identity in popular films, so that concerns and conflicts over class, communal, and regional differences are obsessively evoked, explored, and neutralized. These findings will be of interest to film and area specialists, as well as general readers in film studies.

A Journey Down Melody Lane

Author : Raju Bharatan
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9381398054
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book A Journey Down Melody Lane written by Raju Bharatan and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindi film song has held millions spellbound for nearly eight decades. In this unputdownable ‘labour of love’, India’s leading film song historian, Raju Bharatan, delves deep into his treasure trove to tell us how singing is all about romancing, how composing is all about feelings, how the twain, stardom and songdom, do meet to make the vintage film number a part of the nation’s psyche. He reconstructs song happenings over the last sixty years or so to condense the emotion and passion going into legendary star hook-ups, showing us how with the pairing comes the vibe, with the vibe comes the tune, and with the tune unfolds cinema that is a ‘Madhuballad’ all the way. This volume also describes the creative inputs of music directors, lyricists and singers that go into the making of a Hindi film song. It is a compendium that no one can afford to miss! Raju Bharatan is popularly recognized as the last word on film music in India – as the only one physically there ‘on the scene’ through the decades. His knowledge of Hindustani cinesangeet is matched only by his grip on Indian cricket. He now packs fifty years of musical lore into a work sure to command a niche on your bookshelf.

Networked Bollywood

Author : Swapnil Rai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009445316
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Networked Bollywood written by Swapnil Rai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networked Bollywood provides interdisciplinary analysis of the role of the stars in the transformation of Hindi cinema into a global entertainment industry. The first Indian film was made in 1913. However, filmmaking was recognized as an industry almost a hundred years later. Yet, Indian films have been circulating globally since their inception. This book unearths this oft-elided history of Bollywood's globalization through multilingual, transnational research and discursive cultural analysis. The author illustrates how over the decades, a handful of primarily male megastars, as the heads of the industry's most prominent productions and corporations, combined overwhelming charismatic affect with unparalleled business influence. Through their “star switching power,” theorized here as a deeply gendered phenomenon and manifesting broader social inequalities, India's most prominent stars instigated new flows of cinema, industrial collaborations, structured distinctive business models, influenced state policy and diplomatic exchange, thereby defining the future of Bollywood's globalization.