Bollywood Dreams by Jonathan Torgovnik - ISBN: 9780714844565
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Bollywood: Dreams, stars, and escape in India’s captivating film religion.

Bollywood Dreams

An Exploration of the Motion Picture Industry and its Culture in India

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    120 pages

  • Release Date

    18 October 2004

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Summary

Deriving its name from its American equivalent, Bollywood is the highly successful Indian movie industry predominantly based in Bombay and Madras. Every day more than 14 million people go to the cinema across India to watch films produced by this massive and powerful industry. In India, movies are not just a form of entertainment but practically a religion. Streets in major Indian cities are lined with colourful posters of Indian movies and their stars. Movie stars are treated like demi-gods,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780714844565
ISBN-10:071484456X
Author:Jonathan Torgovnik, Nasreen Munni Kabir
Publisher:Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint:Phaidon Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:120
Edition:New edition
Release Date:18 October 2004
Weight:838g
Dimensions:280mm x 280mm x 12mm
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Critics Review

Bollywood Dreams provides a glimpse behind the shimmering surface to reveal the often grim reality on the other side…striking images juxtaposing the fantasy with the facts to great effect.“—Time Out

About The Author

Jonathan Torgovnik

Jonathan Torgovnik began his career as a combat photographer in the Israeli army. In 1992 Torgovnik entered the photography department at the School of Visual Arts in New York where he graduated with a BFA degree. His photographs have been published in numerous American and international publications, including Newsweek, Smithsonian, London Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, Paris Match and Stern. Torgovnik’s award-winning photographs have been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions in New York and Europe, and have been acquired by museums such as The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Jewish Museum, New York.

Nasreen Munni Kabir is a well-respected documentary film-maker and author who has made several television series about Hindi cinema, including Movie Mahal and In Search of Guru Dutt. She programmes Indian film seasons for Channel 4 UK and has organized festivals of Indian Cinema at the Pompidou Centre, Paris. Her books include Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema (1996), Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema (1999) with Javed Akhtar, and Bollywood: The India Cinema Story (2002). Born in India, Kabir has lived in France and the United Kingdom for most of her life. In January 2000, Kabir was made a governor of the British Film Institute.

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