Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief: Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking

Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance, action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in the world, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a year, which are watched by passionate fans around the globe.

Stephen Alter--a writer who grew up in India and has inside access to Bollywood--acts as translator and tour guide in this firsthand look into the world of Bombay films. Following the making of a Bollywood version of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindi movies and reveals the actors, directors, musicians, and feats of artifice that make them so compelling and unique. From the blessing ceremony performed each time a movie starts shooting to the secrets behind the song- and-dance extravaganzas, Fantasies of a Bollywood Love-Thief is a beguiling introduction to the rituals and culture of a moviemaking industry so similar to and yet utterly different from our own.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Published: 08/06/2007
ISBN: 9780156030847
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.54h x 4.34w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/07/2007 pg. 52
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2007 pg. 639
Library Journal 07/01/2007 pg. 93