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Bollywood Dreams - An Exploration of the Motion Picture Industry and Its Culture in India * hb

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Author: Jonathan Torgovnik

Bollywood is the centre of the vast Indian movie industry, based in Mumbai and Madras, which provides song and dance, love scenes, action sequences, and always a happy ending. This book explores the relationship between the movies and their audience.

Phaidon, 2003; 117 pp.; EN; ills. col; hb

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Lensman Jonathan Torgovnik, fresh from three years of army service in Israel (as a photographer), spent five years in India taking pictures of the assorted deities and rituals of what he terms "India's common religion," popular cinema. The result is the stunning Bollywood Dreams, a compilation of 100 photographs sparingly punctuated with text. Shashi Tharoor