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xiv Introduction films. The Indian International Film Awards, which had its start at London’s Millennium Dome in 2000, has emerged as the biggest export event of any national film industry, with an annual Olympics-style bidding for its hosting by cities across the globe. Numbers had always been Indian cinema’s biggest edge. The fact that it was acknowledged as the most viewed cinema worldwide is a post-2000 achievement, peaking at 2.6 billion cinema admissions in 2012, in contrast to Hollywood’s 1.36 billion (UNESCO-released data based on ticket sales). Annual ticket sales of Indian cinema releases have now crossed the 3 billion mark! Indian cinema continues to amuse and confuse audiences and critics outside of its own country, with its “epico-mythico-tragico-comico-supersexy-high-masala-art form in which the unifying principle is a techni-colourstoryline,” as famously stated by Booker of Bookers Prize–winning novelist Salman Rushdie. This book will explain and explore the above myths and magic, introduce India’s maharjah-like stars and their cult-commanding stardom, and, in doing so, will offer some inspiring stories of human achievement. For movie buffs, it will provide a handy list of iconic films and performances readily available in DVD/online rentals, along with a ready reckoner on some of the most spectacular song-and-dance moments on celluloid that can be enjoyed anytime on popular online media, particularly YouTube. It will enable both the fans and the uninitiated to explore and enjoy the pleasures and popularity of a national cinema that has become a genre in itself. Bollywood FAQ can be both an informative starting reference and the ultimate guide to everything this spectacular, robust, humongous, colorful, and dramatic multi-generic cinematic entity has to offer. The information has been enriched with insider insights culled from my more than two decades as a film writer and critic in the city of Bollywood, Mumbai. The book is divided into four sections. The first provides a historical overview and introduction to Bollywood in all its milestone moments, genres, trends, and signature attributes. Section two is dedicated to introducing the stars and legends whose colorful and inspiring life journeys make for some compelling reading. The singular attraction and a universal expectation from a Bollywood movie experience is the promise of some hummable and magical moments of song and dance. This, the third section, indulgently navigates through the journey of the Hindi film song, with ample trivia titbits to soothe and tickle. And, as no cinema book is complete without recommendations of what (and why) to watch, the fourth section is a veritable list of everything Bollywood. For diehard fans, it offers concise information on the best Bollywood films, soundtracks, directorial achievements, and performances. Each section will thus probe and prescribe aspects of Bollywood that will give readers a well-rounded overview, while answering the most obvious to the
Introduction xv seemingly silly (yet necessary) queries that are fundamental to any informed appreciation of the stars and the styles in the crowded universe of Indian cinema’s galaxy of more than fifty thousand films. “Namaste and Welcome” to a joyful read about the world’s greatest film story never told!
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394 Index Singh, Suchet Singh, Sukh
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