BBC’s sports editor writes a book on Bollywood
30 November 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Mihir Bose has recently been appointed as the first BBC sports editor and he has also just written a book called 'Bollywood - a History'. It is the first narrative history of Bollywood rather than a coffee table book. The book tells the Bollywood story from the introduction of cinema in India in 1896, a few short months after the first ever cinema show in Paris, coincidentally in a place called the Salon Indien. It describes how the industry has changed and adapted and includes some of the remarkable stories that are part of this complex Indian phenomenon. …
he book chronicles the lifestyle of Bollywood, of famous directors who did not hide their bigamy (one famous director had three wives, another had two living in adjacent homes) and actors who went through sham changes of religion to acquire a second wife. The book also describes how Bollywood has in recent years breached the final frontier and reached the west, making movies, which appeal both to traditional Bollywood audiences and western ones. These have included the film LAGAAN based in the days of the Raj around a cricket match between the British and Indians. The British actors who were themselves little known club cricketers in England found themselves treated as if they were England internationals while filming in India. ….read more
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