Reviews & Musings

“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.” ― Audrey Hepburn   Well movie watching is something I enjoy but not to the extent where I am watching everything and anything that comes to the nearby multiplex. I am very choosy about what I watch for I believe in these words by Audrey Hepburn a lot.   This weekend I decided to catch up with Kya Dilli Kya Lahore ( wondering WHY? Read my post here on it ) and added yet another lesson to my book of life. If there is one thing that stared back at me throughout the movie was just one thought – wish the answer to this problem could be as simple as we are so similar yet so different as rightly pointed out by a wonderful fellow blogger Beloo Mehra on my previous post.   Source: Google Images  

Introduction   • ISBN – 9780143065111 • Genre: Non Fiction/ Entertainment • Publishers : Penguin Books India • Price: Rs. 299/- (Note: I won the book in a Goodreads Giveaway !)   Bollywood Nation charts the evolution of Indian cinema from its mythological films in the early 20th century to its world-class gangster and terrorist melodramas of today. In doing so, the book investigates why and how our films have become so deeply embedded in the nation’s popular imagination. Is it merely that cinema is the only common form of mass national culture in a country that does not have either a common language or a common religion—or is it entwined with greater social, cultural and spiritual aspirations?   By narrating the story of India through the stories that our films tell us, Vamsee Juluri posits cinema as the voice of the nation and examines how it has shaped our understanding of our place in the world. Behind The book   Source: Google Imag...