Word: bollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kalyanji V. Shah and Anandji V. Shah were two small town brothers who lucked out to become two of the biggest incidental music composers to jam sitars in Bollywood, India, the largest commercial film industry in the world. During Bollywood's Golden Age in the 50s and 60s, the traditional Indian family drama gave way to the Masala (mixed spice) film, a particulars brand of brownsploitation filled, as the liner notes entice, "with Kung-fu, gunfights, car chases, loose women, badass hoods in smoke-filled opium dens and of course the good guys." This collection of never-been-released music...
This is the world's busiest movie industry. In Bombay they call it Bollywood, and it puts Hollywood to shame: more than 700 films a year (roughly three times the number produced by the major Hollywood studios) in the nation's 16 official languages. Such actresses as Sridevi, Twinkle Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Karisma Kapoor and Chunky Pandey have their careers and private lives monitored by adoring fans with an intensity that Lana Turner would have envied. Bachchan, the God Is My Witness star who looks like a more dashing Jon Lovitz and puts a fierce majesty into his basso declarations...
India has all the elements to be a vibrant cult cinema in the U.S.--the next Hong Kong. And God Is My Witness is a great place for Americans to start supping at the banquet that is Bollywood...
...that is the paradise from which the Moor is eventually ejected. But he holds on to its entertaining, eclectic energy in the telling of his sad tale. Puns and allusions--to everything from Shakespeare and Joyce to Bombay "Bollywood" movies--abound on nearly every page. Proper names hide tricks that only sounding them out against the inner ear will reveal; the Moor's businessman father takes over a failing firm called the House of Cashondeliveri...
India's most glamorous city, home to the glitzy "Bollywood" film industry, has become the capital for the country's primal violence between Hindus and Muslims. Behind Bombay's white seafront facade, the communities have been at war since more than 200 people, mostly Muslims, died in outbreaks following the destruction of a disputed mosque last month. Deadly retaliation and counterretaliation continue, leading to scenes like this: weeping Hindu women surrounded by their Muslim counterparts, all seeking refuge from the hurricane of hate...