Author: Bunny ReubenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Raj Kapur, the Fabulous Showman
Author: Bunny ReubenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Raj Kapoor, the Fabulous Showman
Author: Bunny ReubenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Raj Kapoor, the Fabulous Showman
Author: Bunny ReubenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Raj Kapoor, 1924-1988, Indian motion picture producer, director and actor.
Raj Kapoor
Author: Ritu NandaPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9352770412
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
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.
Fantasy of Modernity
Author: Aarti WaniPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107117216
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Looks at the role of love in 1950s Bombay cinema in terms of its cultural function and its social significance.
Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Ashish RajadhyakshaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191034762
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , Indian Cinema has challenged social injustices such as caste, the oppression of Indian women, religious intolerance, rural poverty, and the pressures of life in the burgeoning cities. And yet, the Indian movie industry makes only about five percent of Hollywood's annual revenue. In this Very Short Introduction Ashish Rajadhyaksha delves into the political, social, and economic factors which, over time, have shaped Indian Cinema into a fascinating counterculture. Covering everything from silent cinema through to the digital era, Rajadhyaksha examines how the industry reflects the complexity and variety of Indian society through the dramatic changes of the 20th century, and into the beginnings of the 21st. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable
Ar Or
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Included section "Book reviews"
Kapoors
Author: Madhu JainPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184758138
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
‘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
Accessions List, South Asia
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New DelhiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Raj Kapoor Speaks
Author: Ritu NandaPublisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780670049523
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.