| Bombay Talkie |
[21 Mar 2005|03:16pm] |
A Movie within a movie - one of those rare occasions when film makers turn the camera on themselves is always a turn-on for anyone who is interested in movies/movie making. This was the reason why Hollywood movies about Hollywood like The Player, Bowfinger and Get Shorty bleeped in my radar.
It is all the more sweet(for me) if the film is about Bollywood or the Malayalam movie industry('am eagerly waitin' to see Udayanaanu Tharam, someone please post a torrent somewhere). A recent(2001) Bollywood movie about Bollywood that comes to mind is Nagesh Kukunoor's Bollywood Calling, I loved it - Om Puri at his comical best. And when I was about to give up hope that there is no movie that catalogs the inner workings of Bollywood of the 50s,60s and the 70s, characterized by gravity defying bouffant hairdos, shimmy shimmy shake of Shammi Kapoor or the soulful melodies of Mohd.Rafi, I ran across Bombay Talkie.
From the Merchant Ivory trio of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory and Ruth Prawar Jhabhwala(I had devoured Jhabhwala's books as a teenager, it was interesting to see their transformation in to the celluloid medium.)Bombay Talkie provides an insiders view of Bollywood of the late sixties, through the lives and times of the young actor called Vikram, played by Shashi Kapoor. His real life wife Jennifer Kendal/Kapoor has the role of a western writer who visits Bollywood. In the movie Shashi Kapoor is married to the beautiful Aparna Sen.
A screenshot from the movie - Shashi Kapoor, Aparna Sen and Jennifer Kendal/Kapoor. Aparna Sen is beautiful isn't she? Konkana is nowhere near her(though she's a wonderful actress).
( + 4 Photos(all screenshots), remember Usha Iyer who later became Usha Uthup, Helen, Jalal Agha - take a look at them when they were our age. I couldn't help taking more screenshots. )
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