List of illustrations

1 ‘No Big Bang’: films advertised alongside theatrical shows in the ‘amusements’ page of the Amrita Bazar Patrika, Calcutta (31 May 1916)

Courtesy: CRL and NewsBank, Inc.

2 One of the many Mughal-era spinoffs of the Anarkali legend. Publicity leaflet of the silent Ulfat-e-Mohammed/Loves of Prince Mohammed, featuring cinema star Khalil, made at the Kohinoor studios, Bombay

Courtesy: Hyphen Films Collection

3 ‘Dizzying cultural displacements’: V. Shantaram, in the war movie Dr Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani/The Immortal Story of Dr Kotnis (1946), alongside ‘Japanese’ soldiers. The film was entirely shot on set in Bombay

Courtesy: V. Shantaram Foundation

4 Nargis and Raj Kapoor in Kapoor’s major countryside-to-city film Shri 420/Mr 420 (1955), the heyday of the 1950s musical

Courtesy: RK Films & Studio

5 Publicity ‘lobby card’ for Navketan’s noir hit Taxi Driver (1955), featuring movie icon Dev Anand

© 1955 Navketan Films

6 The child Durga (Uma Dasgupta), sister of Apu, in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali/Song of the Road (1955)

Photos 12/Alamy

7 Nargis, playing Radha, with Master Sajid and Master Surendra playing her two children, in Mehboob Khan’s Mother India (1955)

Mehboob Productions/The Kobal Collection

8 Sharada in Adoor Goplakrishnan’s debut Malayalam feature Swayamvaram (1972)

Courtesy: Adoor Gopalakrishnan

9 Garima plays the bus driver’s wife Balo in Mani Kaul’s first film Uski Roti/His Bread (1969), widely regarded as having inaugurated the New Indian Cinema

Courtesy: National Film Development Corporation Limited

10 Shabana Azmi, the schoolmaster’s wife, and Naseeruddin Shah, the youngest of the feudal landlord family, in Shyam Benegal’s Nishant/The Night’s End (1975), set in feudal Telangana

Blaze Enterprises/The Kobal Collection

11 Violent new Bollywood: Manoj Bajpai plays Sardar Khan, in Anuraag Kashyap’s The Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)

© Photos 12/Alamy

12 The heyday of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan in Karan Johar’s production Kal Ho Naa Ho/Tomorrow May Never Come (2003, directed by Nikhil Advani)

© AF archive / Alamy Stock Photo

13 Classic Bollywood retro: advertisement for the Mata Hari fashion collection by Bollywood designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla inserted into photographs of Guru Dutt’s famous musical Mr & Mrs 55 (1955)

By Farrokh Chothia in ‘A Celebration of Style’ by Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla; © 2000. Published by AJSK Publications. Used by permission

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