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Product Description Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance, action, drama, singing and dancing. The biggest film industry in the world, Bollywood puts some nine hundred films a year that are watched by passionate fans around the world. Stephen Alter-a writer who grew up in India and has access to Bollywood-acts as translator and guide in this first-hand insight into the world of Bombay films. Following the production of a Bollywood version of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindi movies and shows, the actors, directors, musicians and acts of artifice that make them so compelling and unique. From the blessing ceremony every time a film starts shooting into the secrets behind the song and dance extravaganzas, Fantasies of a Bollywood Love-Thief is a fascinating introduction to the rituals and culture of a film industry so similar and yet very different of our own. . . . More>>
Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief: Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking
This book is like a documentary, like a Bollywood film is created from idea to opening night. Following is the director Madhur Bhandarkar as he foresees, and he succeeds in the film Omkara taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. After reading the book I now completely enjoy the movie and saw Bhandarkar mastery of cinema. The book inspired me to see all his films. The book is also a deep insight into the Bollywood elite and their culture, their magic celluloid Rating: 5 / 5
Man, I enjoyed that! Age does not have a earthshakingly great prose, and he does not have the most piercing insights and analysis into the world of Hindi cinema – but what he does have is genuine affection for the film world, and ACCESS. His cousin is a longtime industry figure, and in the insular world of Bollywood when you go to connect, you focus with all the above bent scheinbar.Alter in the production of the film “Omkara” (very good to see it), from the first idea through to the cast and crew screening in Mumbai. We learn a lot from seeing the film making process – albeit, because, “Omkara” is not a very typical Bollywood movie, I believe what we see is a little different than the norm. He wanders in all sorts of fascinating directions – the preference for light-skinned actors, movie stars and the relationship between the promotion of products, the influence of the ultra-nationalist Hindu party Shiv Sena and his henchmen on the Indian culture and politics. He visited a studio, hangs out with Bollywood legend Dev Anand, and watched the filming of a dance number in front of a mock-up of the Taj Mahal in 110-degree Hitze.Ich wished he had on all these issues with a little more depth and insight touched (this is a small book, and would have) twice as long, and I wish he had a little more background information on the number of films and actors he mentions given. Nevertheless, “Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief” is a pure pleasure for every fan of Hindi movies, full of tidbits of information. And as a little bonus you get grainy black-and-white photos of stars and crew working on “Omkara”. Looks good, Vivek! Rating: 4 / 5
Stephen Alter notes, an off-hand comment by a deputy director of the film Omkara could be the motto of the Hindi film industry known as Bollywood, “a creative sort Hum ko karna padega” ( “We have clarified, things are creative”) . Improvisation is a skill that people need to have in the Indian film industry. Indicative Bollywood in general, the makers of Omkara wear many hats: the director is also a co-author of the screenplay and the composer of the music and Secretary Ajay Devgan (inspired by an American actor’s agent) is also the producer of the film . This work focuses mainly on the production of the Film 2006 Omkara, a retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello,” Starring Ajay Devgan, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. Age of compliments after the preparation of Omkara interlacing of his story with meetings and interviews with industry luminaries such as Hindi film actor Dev Anand, song lyricist and poet Gulzar, poster artist MF Husain, directors Madhur Bhandarkar, Shyam Benegal, Shekhar Kapur, Govind Nihalani, Soham Shah, and experts who had spezialisiert.Dies in various areas of industry and in an effortless work of nonfiction in the sink and Mr. Alter writes has been reached. If you like more information about what are often interested in the creation and completion of a film in the Bollywood film industry with the latest information, “Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief,” fits the bill. I found the story concludes somewhat abruptly, but the book was with and engaging from beginning to end. The end of book content contains a bibliography for the book is a short-text citations and a comprehensive index.Link on Film: Omkara Rating: 5 / 5