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Author : Satyajit Bhatkal
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788179910030
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of Lagaan written by Satyajit Bhatkal and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequence of events that went into the making of the Hindi film Lagaan.
Author : Balaji Vittal
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9354893198
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Pure Evil written by Balaji Vittal and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sholay (1975): Gabbar chops off Thakur's arms with a sword in each hand. Karz (1980): Kamini murders her husband by ramming him repeatedly with a jeep. Mr. India (1987): Mogambo kills hundreds of innocent citizens. No, you don't want to meet these Bollywood baddies in a dark alley; you may not escape with your life if you do. In Pure Evil, Balaji Vittal examines, in delicious detail, the misdeeds of the gangster, the sly relative, the corrupt policeman, the psychopathic killer... A rollercoaster ride, looking at the changing face of the Hindi film villain.
Author : Prasenjeet Kumar
Publisher : http://www.publishwithprasen.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Celebrating Quiet Artists: Stirring Stories of Introverted Artists Who the World Can't Forget written by Prasenjeet Kumar and published by http://www.publishwithprasen.com. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally a Book that Celebrates the Creativity and Rich Imagination of Introverts ** From the #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author ** Do you really think legends like Steven Spielberg, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, Leonardo Da Vinci, Amitabh Bachchan and the like were extroverted and outgoing— unlike you? No. Absolutely wrong. They were quiet. And introverts. Like me. Like you. And yet, their contribution is so well known. Just imagine a world WITHOUT them. What would it be like? Without Harry Potter. Without Mona Lisa. Without Hercule Poirot. Without Inspector Vijay. Without E.T. So if these artists were really introverts like you and me, how did they leave such an indelible imprint on this world? Did they learn to become fake extroverts? Did they practise skills of socialising? Did they learn to talk non-stop? Hell no. They stayed true to themselves. Puzzled? Then Scroll up and grab a copy today or download a sample now! And enjoy many refreshing stories of introverted artists who used their god gifted strengths of introversion to overcome heart-breaking tragedies, challenges, and setbacks. Other Books by the Author in the Series 1. Celebrating Quiet People (Book 1) 2. Quiet Phoenix: An Introvert's Guide to Rising in Career & Life (Book 2) 3. Quiet Phoenix 2: From Failure to Fulfilment (A Memoir of an Introverted Child) 4. Celebrating Quiet Leaders (Book 4) Keywords: self esteem for men and teens and young adults and kids, self respect and quiet the power of introverts and introvert power and introvert advantage, introvert to extrovert, introversion, introverts guide, introvert revolution, introvert way, introvert strength, quiet strength, Agatha Christie, Amitabh Bachchan, A.R. Rahman, Steven Spielberg, Angelina Jolie, Rembrandt, Leonardo Da Vinci, Susan Cain, Rabindranath Tagore, Quiet the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
Author : Antonio D. Sison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041551746X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)
Download or read book World Cinema, Theology, and the Human written by Antonio D. Sison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Cinema, Theology, and the Human builds an engaging intertextual dialogue between nine acclaimed films of world cinema and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience. This book engages with the power of film to trigger hermeneutical impulses and theological conversation stemming from resonant humanity unfolding onscreen. However, it is film as art, not theology as normative text, which lays down a bridge to the possibility of critical dialogue. In this approach, film is emancipated from a theological agenda, and as an art form, given space to speak on its own terms in dialogue with theology.
Author : Omar Ahmed
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0993238491
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Studying Indian Cinema written by Omar Ahmed and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in their wider social, political and historical context whilst a concerted engagement with various ideological strands that underpin each film is also evident. In addition to exploring the films in their wider contexts, the author analyses selected sequences through the conceptual framework common to both film and media studies. This includes a consideration of narrative, genre, representation, audience and mise-en-scene. The case studies run chronologically from Awaara (The Vagabond, 1951) to The Elements Trilogy: Water (2005) and include films by such key figures as Satyajit Ray (The Lonely Wife), Ritwick Ghatak (Cloud Capped Star), Yash Chopra (The Wall) and Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!).
Author : C Danielsrole
Publisher : Om Books International
ISBN 13 : 9380069227
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book I'll Do It My Way: The Incredible Journey Of Aamir Khan written by C Danielsrole and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ll Do It My Way: The Incredible Journey Of Aamir Khan is the story of Aamir Khan’s journey as an actor, producer, director, and one of the true mavericks of Indian cinema. Beginning with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, his debut film as an actor, the book traces his rise to stardom and his evolution as an actor, who is very often talked about as a cut above the rest. All through a career spanning several years, Aamir has been known to be very discerning in his choice of films. He has admirably balanced offbeat movies with box-office hits, neither compromising on innovation nor commercial success. He has re-invented himself at every turn, constantly bringing a fresh perspective to film-making. His entrance into film production and direction was every bit as groundbreaking as it was expected to be. The book covers 20 years of Aamir’s journey in Bollywood and highlights several of his landmark movies such as1947 Earth, Lagaan, Dil Chahta Hai, and Dil. The information contained in the book is backed by research into 20 years worth of press coverage. The author also interviewed numerous people who collaborated with Aamir on various projects over the years, including Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Mahesh Bhatt, Ronnie Screwvala, Aditya Bhattacharya, Indra Kumar, Mansoor Khan, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Asin, A.R. Murugadoss, Nandita Das, and Rajkumar Hirani. The author has worked on the book for 3 years to give the readers interesting insight into the growth and success of Aamir Khan - a unique, versatile Indian actor in a league of his own. I’ll Do It My Way: The Incredible Journey Of Aamir Khan was published in 2012 by Om Books International.
Author : Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825892104
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Peripheral Centres, Central Peripheries written by Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent scholars in literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, media studies, theatre production, and translation challenge the centre-periphery dichotomy used as a paradigm for relations between colonizers and their erstwhile subjects in this collection of critical interventions. Focussing on India and its diaspora(s) in western industrialized nations and former British colonies, this volume engages with topics of centrality and/or peripherality, particularly in the context of Anglophone Indian writing; the Indian languages; Indian film as art and popular culture; cross-cultural Shakespeare; diasporic pedagogy; and transcultural identity.
Author : Emma Bainbridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317997255
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Connecting Cultures written by Emma Bainbridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and incisive collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Europe. Those interactions have been both destructive and richly productive, and the consequences continue to 'trouble the living stream' today. Several of the essays focus on the continuing reverberations of political and cultural conflicts in post-Apartheid Southern Africa, including the presence in Britain of Zimbabwean asylum seekers. Other authors discuss the ways in which Indian culture has transformed novelistic and cinematic forms. A third group of essays examines the attempts of West Indian women writers to reclaim their territory and describe it in their own terms. The collection as a whole is framed by essays which deal with discourses of 'terror' and 'terrorism' and how we translate and read them in the wake of 9/11. This book was previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Author : Nasreen Munni Kabir
Publisher : Om Books International
ISBN 13 : 9380070144
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A.R. Rahman: The Spirit of Music written by Nasreen Munni Kabir and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2011 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When composer A.R. Rahman's first film Roja was released in 1992, his astonishing music with its other-worldly melodies, tonal texture, pulsating rhythms made an instant impact in India. His abundantly flowing talent has given life to the scores of over a hundred films, including Dil Se, Bombay, Lagaan, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, 127 Hours and Jodhaa Akbar. According to a recent estimate by the BBC, 150 million copies of his albums have sold worldwide. A.R. Rahman has won a host of awards, together with a Golden Globe, a Bafta, two Oscars and two Grammys for his score in Slumdog Millionaire. In 2010, he received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour, awarded by the Government of India. Despite all his great success, Rahman remains a deeply private person, shying away from the glitz and glamour of show business. A.R. Rahman: The Spirit of Music is in the form of biographical conversations between the composer and Nasreen Munni Kabir in which we hear of Rahman's amazing journey from modest beginnings to an assured place in world music history.
Author : Lucia Krämer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501307592
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Bollywood in Britain written by Lucia Krämer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bollywood in Britain provides the most extensive survey to date of the various manifestations and facets of the Bollywood phenomenon in Britain. The book analyzes the role of Hindi films in the British film market, it shows how audiences engage with Bollywood cinema and it discusses the ways the image of Bollywood in Britain has been shaped. In contrast to most of the existing books on the subject, which tend to approach Bollywood as something that is made by Asians for Asians, the book also focuses on how Bollywood has been adapted for non-Asian Britons. An analysis of Bollywood as an unofficial brand is combined with in-depth readings of texts like film reviews, the TV show Bollywood Star (2004) and novels and plays with references to the Bombay film industry. On this basis Bollywood in Britain demonstrates that the presentation of Bollywood for British mainstream culture oscillates between moments of approximation and distancing, with a clear dominance of the latter. Despite its alleged transculturality, Bollywood in Britain thus emerges as a phenomenon of difference, distance and Othering.
Author : Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0857852973
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Fashioning Bollywood written by Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindi film industry, among the most prolific in the world, has delighted audiences for decades with its colourful, exquisite and sometimes startling costumes. But are costumes more than just a source of pleasure? This book, the first in-depth exploration of Hindi film costume, contends that they are a unique source of knowledge about issues ranging from Indian taste and fashion to questions of identity, gender and work. Anthropological and film studies approaches combine to analyze costume as the outcome of production processes and as a cinematic device for conveying meaning. Chapters lead from the places where costume is planned and executed to explorations of characterization, the actor body, spectacles of fashion, to the imagining of historical or fantasy worlds through dress, to the power of stardom to launch clothing styles into the public domain. As well as charting the course of film costume as it parallels important trends in cultural history, the book considers the future of Hindi film costume, in the context of new strains of filmmaking that stress unvarnished realism. Fashioning Bollywood will appeal to students and scholars of Indian culture, anthropology and fashion, as well as anyone who has seen and enjoyed Hindi films.
Author : Tejaswini Ganti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136849297
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Bollywood written by Tejaswini Ganti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and enthusiastic audiences from India to West Africa to Russia, and throughout the English-speaking world. In Bollywood, anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and structure of the Bombay film industry, and the development of popular Hindi filmmaking since the 1930s. Providing information and commentary on the key players in Bollywood, including directors and stars, as well as material from current filmmakers themselves, the areas covered in Bollywood include: history of Indian cinema narrative style, main themes, and key genres of Hindi cinema significant films, directors and stars production and distribution of Bollywood films interviews with actors, directors and screenwriters.
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1217 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular Male Actors in Hindi Cinema written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boria Majumdar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317998936
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Sport in South Asian Society written by Boria Majumdar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of South Asian sport cannot be understood by simply looking at the history of the game in one province or region. Furthermore, it demonstrates that it would be wrong to understand sport in terms of the exigencies of the colonial state. Drawing inspiration from C.L.R. James' well-known epigram, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?' the findings suggest that South Asian sport makes sense only when it is placed within the broader colonial and post-colonial context. The book demonstrates that sport not only influences politics and vice versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only political, it is politics, intrigue, culture and art. To deny this is to denigrate the position of sport in modern South Asian society. This volume was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : Manju Jaidka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892483
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Narratives Across Borders written by Manju Jaidka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is centred around the idea that the aim of literature is to build bridges, to bring people together, and to highlight underlying similarities despite the apparent differences in world literatures. As such, the book focuses on the moral purpose of literature and its tendency to overcome divisive forces. It supports the idea of cosmopolitanism, a re-working of the ancient Indian ideal of Vasudhaiva Kuttumbakam, or ‘the world is my home’, a concept close to the African notion of ‘ubuntu’, which refers to an open society (as against a small, enclosed one) and relates to the essence of being human and working for the benefit of a larger community. The book uses examples from texts across geographical and cultural borders, beginning with classics like the Indian epics, the Panchatantra, the Kathasaritsagar, and the Arabian Nights, before moving on to contemporary texts in the age of information technology. Although these may originate against diverse backdrops, they have a commonality that cannot be denied. The stories we tell, the tales we love to hear and repeat, all share certain features which reach out across boundaries of time and space, thus bridging the gap between people and places. Living in today’s globalized world, there is a need to study literature in a broader perspective and to be aware that, though stories may be rooted in a particular time and place, they are still a part of the world heritage and comprise what is called world literature. The book will be of particular interest to scholars studying the art of storytelling, as well as the lay reader passionate about literature.
Author : Melanie Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085771628X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Religion and Film written by Melanie Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema. However, all too often religion and film are discussed from narrowly confessional perspectives, with the result that the field has long been dominated by the question of a film's fidelity to a religious text or worldview, or its value as a tool in ministry and mission. "Religion and Film: An Introduction" seeks to redress this balance, and argues for a new, holistic approach to the subject that draws on work from cultural studies, religious studies and film studies alike. Wright argues that the 'meanings' of a film are not encoded by its textual organisation, but are bound up with its interpretation by viewers in specific contexts. Focusing on religiously diverse films like "The Ten Commandments", "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc", "Kadosh", "Lagaan", "My Son the Fanatic", "Keeping the Faith", "The Wicker Man" and Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ", the author looks at varied screen representations of religion; at films shaped by strong convictions about the place of religion in society; and at the roles that audiences play as consumers of film. The book will have strong appeal to students as well as general readers interested in all aspects of the inter-relationship of religion and the cinema.
Author : Priya Joshi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023153907X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Bollywood's India written by Priya Joshi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes "India." Written by an award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial modernity, Bollywood's India analyzes the role of the cinema's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India. With dazzling interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi provides an interdisciplinary account of popular cinema as a space that filters politics and modernity for its viewers. Themes such as crime and punishment, family and individuality, vigilante and community capture the diffuse aspirations of an evolving nation. Summoning India's tumultuous 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi reveals the cinema's social work across decades that saw the decline of studios, the rise of the multi-starrer genre, and the arrival of corporate capital and new media platforms. In elegantly crafted studies of iconic and less familiar films, including Awara (1951), Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957), Deewaar (1975), Sholay (1975), Dil Se (1998), A Wednesday (2008), and 3 Idiots (2009), Joshi powerfully conveys the pleasures and politics of Bollywood blockbusters.
