A book is born - Part III
25.7.2013, Mumbai
My
tenth book and third book on Bachchan Amitabh
Lexicon (2011) is a
compilation of selective words from the alphabets of the English
language associated with different scenes from the actor’s body of
work – scenes where he made you cry, laugh and all shook up. Like
he says in his film Namak
Halaal “Lo
karlo baat…aaree
English to aisi aave
hain ke I can leave
angrez
behind…I can talk English, I can walk English, and I can laugh
English…”
Mother
Maiden Mistress (2012)
co-authored with Jigna Kothari and Supriya Madangarli is celebration
of women in Hindi cinema from 1950 -2010. It has been a long hundred
years since Dadasaheb Phalke portrayed a man as his heroine in Raja
Harishchandra (1913)
and women have a come a long way since then both on and off screen.
Mother Maiden
Mistress
documents the journey of women characters in films post partition to
new millennium where the definition of the mother, the maiden and the
mistress have changed beyond imagination.
Talking
Cinema (2013) my
twelfth book hit the stands last week and features passionate
conversations with actors and filmmakers on their craft. Have you
ever wondered what do actors think about before a shot, have you
wondered how they prepare for a crucial scene? Have you ever wondered
what the director feels when his set has to be demolished after the
film is completed? Behind the greasepaint and glycerin, and into the
heart of what gives the audience goose bumps, Talking
Cinema goes behind the
scenes with several of film fraternity’s best known stars and
filmmakers to unravel what goes on in the mind of an artiste. The
book is about the skill, effort and resources that go into the making
of a scene stealer or a classic.
Bhawana
Somaaya/ @bhawnasomaaya
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