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Author: Rajiv Vijayakar
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 935136495X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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With the advent of sound, Hindi songs acquired a grammar of their own, thanks to the introduction of songs as a part of the narrative - a tradition that is unique to Hindi cinema. This gave rise to a class of professionals who acquired a star status that was in the league of the actors themselves - the lyricists. Rajiv Vijayakar's book chronicles the journeys of leading film lyricists - from D.N. Madhok and Pandit Pradeep to Amitabh Bhattacharya and Irshad Kamil, including stalwarts like Shakeel Badayuni and Sahir Ludhianvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri and Anand Bakshi, Gulzar and Javed Akhtar - who have woven magic with the written word. Filled with trivia and never-before-heard-of anecdotes, Main Shaayar Toh Nahin is an introduction to the contribution made by some of the finest wordsmiths to the Hindi film industry.

Author: Ganesh Anantharaman
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143063407
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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This volume traces the evolution of the Hindi film song to its present status as the cultural barometer of the country through an evaluation of the work of over 50 outstanding composers. Interviews with icons like Lata Mangehskar and Dev Anand are included.

Author: Rahul Rawail
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9388630181
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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'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.

Author: Siddhartha Biswas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040103537
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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The book looks at the impact that the idea and institution of nationhood have had on the constituents of India in the contemporary postcolonial period. It provides a critical analysis through a variety of perspectives––historical, philosophical, literary, and gendered, and locates the nation and its “discontents”, along with its nationalist agenda firmly within the context of the contemporary perceived modernity. The book also engages with the colonial legacy that the ‘nation’ had to endure for two hundred years. It discusses key themes such as nationalism in the contemporary Indian context, the concept of Hindutva, Islam nationalism, and queer nationalism. An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of India studies, Indian politics, Third World studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, nation studies, and history.

Author: Vanshika Verma Khare
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1946641871
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Have you been finding it real hard to play that favourite song on your Keyboard? Here's a book that helps you play your favourite song with ease. This book is written for the Keyboard lovers, students, professionals as well as novices. Soon you will find yourself sitting with your Keyboard, playing the songs written in this book, wondering how lovely the world of music is, and why we have made it so complicated. This book contains step-wise instructions as well as the simplified Chords and Notations of Top Bollywood Songs. So, Go on, Get your Keyboard and Become a Pro!

Author: Srinivasa Addepalli
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Manish has looked forward to living in a hostel ever since he was a child. Finally, his dream has come true. As Manish sets foot in the room that will shape his next four years, his heart sinks. How will he cope with the smell of urine, mess food and, of course, first love? Join Manish, Thomas and Swami in their adventures of exams, politics, elections, potatoes, bathroom fights, heartbreaks, shaayari and more. Hostelitis is a coming-of-age story of Manish and his friends. It is also the story of every engineering college hostelite from the nineties and, perhaps, even today!

Author: Madhu Jain
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184758138
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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‘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

Author: Namrata Joshi
Publisher: Hachette India
ISBN: 9350097281
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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‘Picture abhi baaki hai...’ If there’s one experience that unites India, it is cinema. In Reel India, award-winning film critic Namrata Joshi journeys through the interiors of the country intimately chronicling little-known accounts about the nation’s incessant obsession with the movies. In Lucknow, she encounters a Shah Rukh Khan fan who has embraced an alternate reality in which he lives and breathes the star. In Wai, she finds an entire economy fuelled by the film industry as the town transforms into a film set. An activist filmmaker in Odisha demonstrates how he teaches local tribal people the basics of his craft, empowering them to train the spotlight on issues threatening their habitat and livelihood. From the fever pitch of the ‘first day first show’ in makeshift halls to the rivalries of regional cinema, this is India’s immersion in the movies like it’s never been seen before. Filled with real-life stories that are as fascinating as the revelations and insights they offer, Reel India raises the curtain on the starry-eyed dreams and big-screen passions that live on after the final ‘cut’ is announced.

Author: Sasmit Powale
Publisher: One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9352019067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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Freedom. Have we really achieved it? Or does it remain an illusion? Suffocating and stagnant. Who dictates our destinies? How pure are their intentions? Is there liberation? Max is a twenty-one- year old literature teacher who wants to take you back to his college days, a time where he and his friends, Akhil, Sam, Jhanvi and Kunal - a marijuana-smoking bunch of good-for-nothing teenagers with superpowers, were studying mass media in a suburban college in Mumbai. Their lives are unwittingly caught between two political revolutions (the 2014 Indian General elections and 2016 US Elections), as they chase their pleasures and ambitions. But things are never that easy, are they? Reality seeps into their paradise and begins to rot it. What will happen when they encounter the murky truth about the world, and a murkier truth about themselves? When they see the puppeteer and his strings, will they choose to cut the strings or replace him? Around the world nineteen something year olds are on the frontlines of war against moral degradation of the world, and this is a story about it.

Author: Brian Diettrich
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199862540
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Bollywood Sounds surveys seventy years of Hindi film song as a cosmopolitan and overwhelmingly popular music of India. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones analyzes more than twenty landmark songs and provides insights into song production practices and influential music makers, showing how the industry has consistently mediated a variety of musical influences to create a robust and long-lived genre.