Icons From Bollywood

Author : Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri,Prashanto Kumar Nayak
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064770491

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Icons from Bollywood by Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri,Prashanto Kumar Nayak Pdf

Icons Brings You The Stories Of The Men And Women Who Have Changed The Face Of India As We Know It. By Their Achievements In Their Chosen Fields, They Have Provided Us With Inspiration And Encouragement. Each Of The Stories Is A Revelation Of How Talent, Determination And Individual Aspiration Can Make Heroes. Did You Know " Amitabh Bachchan Auditioned As A Newsreader On Air And Was Turned Down For Not Having A Good Voice " R.D. Burman Was Nicknamed Pancham By Ashok Kumar Because He Kept Humming The Note Pa From The Sargam As A Kid " Dilip Kumar Told His Father He Was An Actor Only After His Third Film " Hema Malini Was Once Told She Was Not Glamorous Enough " Raj Kapoor Was Slapped By His First Director! Icons From Bollywood Brings Together Fascinating Anecdotes And Behind-The-Scenes Stories From The Lives Of Fifteen Stars Who Have Created Magical Worlds For Us, Moved Us To Tears And Laughter, And Changed The World Of Hindi Films Forever. Funny, Heartbreaking And Always Inspiring, These Stories Are As Exciting As The Ones We Love Watching On Screen.

Author : Tilak Rishi
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781466939639

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Bless You Bollywood! by Tilak Rishi Pdf

May 3, 1913-a historic day in the history of Indian Cinema. India's first indigenous silent film Raja Harishchandra was released at the Coronation Cinema in Mumbai. This lay the foundation of what, in time, would grow to become the largest film-producing industry in the world. Spanning a wide range of decades, genres, and style, the Bollywood film culture in all its glory is a wonderful thing. Of the hundreds of great hits it has given, some have attained an aura of unparalleled respectability because, overtime, they continue to draw viewers in multitudes for weeks, months, and even years. Bless You Bollywood is an endeavor to pay tribute to the tallest among movie makers, artistes, composers, lyricists, and scriptwriters down the decades for contributing their extraordinary caliber to Bollywood.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular 20Th-century Indian Actresses by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9784057664095

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Actresses in Hindi Cinema by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Meeta Jha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317557951

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The Global Beauty Industry by Meeta Jha Pdf

The Global Beauty Industry is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts, it coalesces with initiatives to produce more internationally relevant curricula in fields such as sociology, as well as cultural, women's/gender, media, and globalization studies.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Male Actors in Hindi Cinema by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Ajay Gehlawat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317644002

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Twenty-First Century Bollywood by Ajay Gehlawat Pdf

Key changes have emerged in Bollywood in the new millennium. Twenty-First Century Bollywood traces the emerging shifts in both the content and form of Bollywood cinema and examines these new tendencies in relation to the changing dynamics of Indian culture. The book historically situates these emerging trends in relation to previous norms, and develops new, innovative paradigms for conceptualizing Bollywood in the twenty-first century. The particular shifts in contemporary Bollywood cinema that the book examines include the changing nature of the song and dance sequence, the evolving representations of male and female sexuality, and the increasing presence of whiteness as a dominant trope in Bollywood cinema. It also focuses on the increasing presence of Bollywood in higher education courses in the West, as well as how Bollywood’s growing presence in such academic contexts illuminates the changing ways in which this cinema is consumed by Western audiences. Shifting the focus back on the cinematic elements of contemporary films themselves, the book analyses Bollywood films by considering the film dynamics on their own terms, and related to their narrative and aesthetic usage, rather than through an analysis of large-scale industrial practices. It will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, Film Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Author : Lucia Krämer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501307591

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Bollywood in Britain by Lucia Krämer Pdf

Bollywood in Britain provides the most extensive survey to date of the various manifestations and facets of the Bollywood phenomenon in Britain. The book analyzes the role of Hindi films in the British film market, it shows how audiences engage with Bollywood cinema and it discusses the ways the image of Bollywood in Britain has been shaped. In contrast to most of the existing books on the subject, which tend to approach Bollywood as something that is made by Asians for Asians, the book also focuses on how Bollywood has been adapted for non-Asian Britons. An analysis of Bollywood as an unofficial brand is combined with in-depth readings of texts like film reviews, the TV show Bollywood Star (2004) and novels and plays with references to the Bombay film industry. On this basis Bollywood in Britain demonstrates that the presentation of Bollywood for British mainstream culture oscillates between moments of approximation and distancing, with a clear dominance of the latter. Despite its alleged transculturality, Bollywood in Britain thus emerges as a phenomenon of difference, distance and Othering.

Author : Piyush Roy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493050833

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Bollywood FAQ by Piyush Roy Pdf

Bollywood, a popular nomenclature for India's “national” film industry in the Hindi language, along with the Taj Mahal, yoga, Buddha, and Mahatma Gandhi, is one of the best-known introductions and universally recognized associations with India across the world today. Despite its predominant narrative styles not confirming to the First World European and/or American cinema structure, Indian cinema is increasingly viewed as the world's second-most important film industry, after Hollywood, with box-office influence crossing over with European cinema. Bollywood FAQ provides a thrilling, entertaining, and intellectually stimulating joy ride into the vibrant, colorful, and multi-emotional universe of the world's most prolific (over 30 000 film titles) and most-watched film industry (at 3 billion-plus ticket sales). Bollywood blockbusters are simultaneously screened in theaters and cinemas in over 100 nations from the USA to Japan, New Zealand to the Netherlands, and Peru to Pakistan. Every major Hollywood studio (Warner Bros., Fox Star, Disney, Sony Pictures, and Viacom 18) is now making or distributing Bollywood films. Yet much of Indian cinema continues to amuse and confuse audiences and critics outside of India, including during their first/occasional introductions to its, in the words of Salman Rushdie, “epico-mythico-tragico-comico-super-sexy-high-masala-art form in which the unifying principle is a techni-color-storyline.” Bollywood FAQ explains and explores the above myths and magic. It introduces India's maharajah-like stars and their cult-commanding stardom. Movie buffs will find a ready reckoner on iconic Bollywood films, with a bonus must-watch listing of the cinema's most spectacular song-and-dance moments, highlighting the pleasures and popularity of a national cinema that has come to be a genre in itself. This book is a reader-friendly reference to everything one has ever wanted to know about the spectacular, robust, humongous, colorful, and dramatic multi-generic cinematic being called Bollywood. The narrative is enriched with insider insights culled from its author's long career as a film writer and critic in the city of Bollywood, Bombay (now Mumbai).

Author : Bishnupriya Ghosh
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822350163

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Global Icons by Bishnupriya Ghosh Pdf

Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change.

Author : Neil L. Whitehead,Michael Wesch
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607321705

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Human No More by Neil L. Whitehead,Michael Wesch Pdf

Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography. They break definitions, blur distinctions, and force us to rethink the notion of the "subject." Human No More asks how digital cultures can be integrated and how the ethnography of both the "unhuman" and the "digital" could lead to possible reconfiguring the notion of the "human." This provocative and groundbreaking work challenges fundamental assumptions about the entire field of anthropology. Cross-disciplinary research from well-respected contributors makes this volume vital to the understanding of contemporary human interaction. It will be of interest not only to anthropologists but also to students and scholars of media, communication, popular culture, identity, and technology.

Author : Sharon Schweitzer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118919026

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Access to Asia by Sharon Schweitzer Pdf

Create meaningful relationships that translate to betterbusiness Access to Asia presents a deeply insightful framework fortoday's global business leaders and managers, whether travelingfrom Toronto to Taipei, Baltimore to Bangalore, or San Francisco toShanghai. Drawing from her extensive experience and globalconnections, author Sharon Schweitzer suggests that irrespective oftheir industry, everyone is essentially in the relationshipbusiness. Within Asia, building trust and inspiring respect arevital steps in developing business relationships that transcendbasic contractual obligations. Readers will find in-the-trenchesadvice and stories from 80 regional experts in 10 countries,including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and Korea. Discover the unique eight-question framework that provides richinterview material and insight from respected cultural experts Track cultural progress over time and highlight areas in needof improvement with the Self-Awareness Profile Learn the little-known facts, reports, and resources that helpestablish and strengthen Asian business relationships Effective cross-cultural communication is mandatory for today'ssuccessful global business leaders. For companies and individualslooking to engage more successfully with their counterparts inAsia, Access to Asia showcases the critical people skillsthat drive global business success.

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785277887

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Essays in Celebrity Culture by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

The collection of essays in the book moves from the largest domain of celebrity culture in India – Bollywood – through celebrity life writing and biopics and, finally, to the politics of and by celebrity culture. The book begins with an exploration of films made around celebrity victims to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of Bollywood stars’ philanthropic and humanitarian work and, finally, to celebrity charisma and its role in the current era of ‘post-truth.’ Two studies of celebrity biopics and auto/biographies – from sports stars to Bollywood stars – and their disease memoirs are included. Finally, a section of essays are devoted to celebrity cultural politics, including Indian writing as a celebrity, the Narmada River as a celebrity, the desacralization of celebrity statues, Arundhati Roy’s celebrated and celebrity activism and the self-fashioning of Indian authors in the age of digital culture.

Author : Lalit Mohan Joshi
Publisher : Lucky Dissanayake
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 9780953703227

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Bollywood by Lalit Mohan Joshi Pdf

This work provides an introduction to the enormously successful world of Bollywood - the biggest film industry on the planet. It includes a selection of writings by some of the most prominent voices in Indian film writing and criticism.

Author : Anil Dharker
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788174369444

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Icons: Men and Women who Shaped Today's India by Anil Dharker Pdf

Sixty glorious years of independence of India mark several milestones and immense contributions from great men and women who have become part of its history. For the first time ever, this book showcases post-Independent India's twenty greatest living personalities who have and continue to set extraordinary examples for the nation. Brilliantly orchestrated and edited by renowned author Anil Dharker, the book singularly establishes the unparalleled greatness and iconic status of these men and women, including A P J Abdul Kalam, Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, M F Husain, Charles Correa and Sonia Gandhi, by some of India's best known writers - Srinivas Laxman, Prem Shankar Jha, Maithili Rao, Dom Moraes, Ranjit Hoskote, and Kumar Ketkar, among others. A fascinating saga spanning several decades, this book unfolds the charisma, exceptional destinies, talents and achievements of twenty men and women who continue to shape today's India. 'The previous evening while he (K C Pant, former defence minister) and Dr Kalam were going for a walk, the minister asked him: "What would you like me to do to celebrate the success of Agni tomorrow?" Replied Kalam, "We need 100,000 saplings at the missile research centre." Srinivas Laxman on A P J Abdul Kalam'