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Bollywood film is the national cinema of India, describing movies made in Mumbai, distributed nationally across India and with their own production, distribution and exhibition networks worldwide. This informative screen guide reflects the work of key directors, major stars and important music directors and screenplay writers. Historically important films have been included along with certain cult movies and top box office successes. No guide to Hindi film would be complete without discussing: Mother India, the national epic of a peasant woman's struggle against nature and society to bring up her family; Sholay, a 'curry western' where the all-star cast sing and dance, romance and kill; Dilwale Dulhaniya le jayenge, the greatest of the diaspora films, in which two British Asians fall in love on a holiday in Europe before going to India where they show their elders how to incorporate love into family traditions; Junglee, showing how love transforms a 'savage' (junglee) who yells 'Yahoo!' before singing and dancing like Elvis, creating a new youth culture; Pyaasa, dramatically shot in black and white film with haunting songs as the romantic poet suffers for his art in the material world; Fans of Bollywood film can debate Rachel Dwyer's personal selection of these 101 titles while those new to the area will find this an invaluable introduction to the best of the genre.
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Rachel Dwyer is Reader in Indian Studies and Cinema, SOAS, University of London. Her main work is on Hindi cinema where she has researched and published on film magazines and popular fiction, consumerism and the new middle classes, love and eroticism, visual culture and religion and secularism. She has published several books including Yash Chopra, about one of the greats of the Hindi film industry with whom she worked for several years (bfi 2002
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Rachel Dwyer has her favourites. She is not entirely neutral.She is hooked on Chaplinesque type of acting.One cine personality she likes is highlighted and particularly the one she is not keen on is sidelined:(Ref.STILL from Film Andaz)__ She beats about the bush when commenting on the film "Naya Daur" and refrains from praising the main character. We couldn't find a single iconic or striking STILL of Dilip Kumar, one of India's greatest actors, in the book. If she wants to redeem her integrity, she should include at least two STILLS of Dilip Kumar: One from Naya Daur (so that People could put a name to his face)and another from Mughal-e-Azam in the next edition of her book. We want uninformed cinemagoers in the West to get to know his face better. We were astounded to read a paragraph about Dilip Kumar's highest number of Filmfare awards under a picture of "Another Actor" in an Exhibition of Indian-Film-Stills at Manchester. Those Stills,we understand,were originally collected by Rachel Dwyer.
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