Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief: Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking
by Alter, Stephen
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Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance, action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in the world, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a year, which are watched by passionate fans around the globe. Stephen Altera writer who grew up in India and has inside access to Bollywoodacts as translator and tour guide in this firsthand look into the world of Bombay films. Following the making of a Bollywood version of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindi movies and reveals the actors, directors, musicians, and feats of artifice that make them so compelling and unique. From the blessing ceremony performed each time a movie starts shooting to the secrets behind the song- and-dance extravaganzas, Fantasies of a Bollywood Love-Thief is a beguiling introduction to the rituals and culture of a moviemaking industry so similar to and yet utterly different from our own.
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- Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief: Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking
- Author
- Alter, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0156030845
- ISBN 13
- 9780156030847
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Place of Publication
- N. Y.
- Date Published
- 2007-08-06
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