Index

3 Idiots 111

A

Aag/Fire 60
Aandhi/The Storm 83
Aarohan/The Ascent 93
Aashiqui/Lover 101
Ab Tak Chhappan/Fifty Six Down So Far 108
Abbas K. A. (Khwaja Ahmad) 44, 45
Abraham, John 113
Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla 115, 116, 117
Achhut Kanya/The Untouchable 37
Agarwala, Jyptiprasad 79
Agradoot 64
Aiyer, Dewan C. P. Ramaswamy 80
Akaler Sandhaney/In Search of Famine 85
Akash Kusum/Up in the Clouds 85
Akbar Saleem Anarkali 33
Akhtar, Javed 118
Akhtar, Zoya 118
Alam Ara 24
All India Anna DMK 75
All India Sanitary Conferences 29
Amar Akbar Anthony 95
Amar Bhoopali/The Immortal Song 64
Amarnath, K. (Gelaram Khetrapal) 59
Ambani, Anil 99, 104, 117
Amin, Shimit 108
Amritmanthan/Churning of the Nectar 39
Anand, Chetan 44, 45, 60
Anand, Dev 56, 58, 60, 70
Anand, Vijay 60
Ananthamurthy, U. R. 81
Anarkali 33
Andaman Kaithi/Prisoner of the Andamans 50
Andhra Pradesh xvi, 78, 79, 92
Andolan/The Revolution 50
Ankur/The Seedling 92, 93
Anmol Ghadi/Invaluable Clock 55
Annadurai, C. N. 74
Apanjan 94
Aparajito/The Unvanquished 65, 69
Apoorva Sahodarargal/Rare Brothers 63
Apte, Narayan Hari 39
Apur Sansar/The World of Apu 65
Aravindan, G. 80
Arnold, Edwin 33
art schools 11, 12
Asif, K. (Karim) 33
Assam 40, 56, 78, 79
audiences
foreign viewers 95–6
in late colonialism 25
Muslim audiences in Europe 95
Aurat/Woman 68
AVM film company 64
Awara/The Vagabond 55, 64, 97
Azmi, Shabana 92, 93

B

Baazi/Gambler 60
Babla 64
Bachchan, Amitabh 82, 90, 91, 95, 96, 97, 99, 112, 116
Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited 105–8
Baishey Shrabon/The Twenty Second Day of Shravan 110, 114
Bajpai, Manoj 109
Bali, Geeta 60, 63
Bandyopadhyay, Bibhutibhushan 65
Bangladesh xvi, xvii, 89
Bannerjee, Dibakar 113, 118
Baran, Timir 62
Barsaat/Rain 55
Barua, P.C. (Pramathesh Chandra) 40, 64, 66, 117
Battala printing presses 11
bazaar 11, 19
Beato, Felice 13
Bell, Sir Hesketh 28
Benegal, Shyam 92–3, 94
Bengal 16, 40, 71, 76, 83, 85, 86, 93, 94, 110
Bengal Renaissance 70
Bengal School 64, 65, 66, 69
famine 44, 46, 50
first partition 17, 18
Bhakta Vidur/Saint Vidur 20
Bhansali, Sanjay Leela 117
Bharadwaj, Vishal 113
Bharatanatyam dance 97
Bharathan, B. Kandaswamy 97
Bharathi, Subramanya 74
Bhattacharya, Basu 82, 94
Bhattacharya, Bijon 44
Bhatti Gate Group 35, 36
Bhonsle, Asha 58, 99
Bhuvan Shome 86
Biswas, Anil 62
Black Friday 108, 113
Boal, Augusto 85
Bodyguard 110
Bollywood Flashback 100, 105
Bombay 107
Bombay Talkies (Bombay) 35–7, 54, 56, 60
Bombay Velvet 117–18
Boral, R. C. (Raichand) 62
Bose, Nandalal 65
Bose, Nitin 64
Bottomore, Stephen 12
Bourne & Shepherd 10
Bresson, Robert 85
British Cinematograph Act (1909) 17
Bromley, Constance 15
Brosius, Christine 96
Burman, Rahul Dev 99
Burman, Sachin Dev 56

C

Calcutta ’71 85, 86
Calcutta Film Society 65
censorship 14–18, 20, 21, 36, 52, 83, 101, 113
health and sanitation 28–9
Chakraborty, Mithun 96
Chakraborty, Tulsi 69
Chander, Krishen 50
Chandralekha 45, 57, 63
Charulata 65
Chatterjee, Basu 94
Chatterjee, Soumitra 85
Chaudhuri, Nirad 43
Chhattopadhyay, Saratchandra 40
Chinnamul/The Uprooted 46
Chiranjeevi 82
Chopra, Aditya 115
Chopra, B. R. (Baldev Raj) 63
Chopra, Yash 63, 102, 110, 115
Chunilal, Rai Bahadur 60
Clair, Rene 40
Clark, Kenneth 42
colonial Durbars 10–14
Colonial Films Committee Report (1930) 35, 52
Communist movement/ Communist Party 44, 49, 81, 89, 93
Company 108
Company School Painting 11
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) 105, 109
Congress Party 49, 51
Constitution of India xvi, 52, 73
Cooper, Patience 6
Cornwallis Theatre, Calcutta 7
Corsican Brothers, The 63
Crown Film 42, 43
Curzon, Lord 17

D

D 108
Dalal, Sucheta 105
Das Gupta, Chidananda 61–2, 103
Dasgupta, Uma 67
David, Joseph 24
Deewar/The Wall 88, 90
Defence of India Act (1939) 43
Delhi Belly 110
Devdas 117
Devgn, Ajay 110
Dey, Manna 58
Dharti ke Lal/Children of the Earth 44, 45
Dhrupad 87
Dhulia, Tigmanshu 108
Dil Se … /From the Heart … 108
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge/The Braveheart Gets the Bride 64, 115
Dirty Picture, The 110
Discovery of India, The/Bharat Ek Khoj 93
Disney India 99
Dixit, Madhuri 116
Do Bhai/Two Brothers 56
Do Bigha Zameen/Two Acres of Land 46, 64
Don-2 110
Dr Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani/The Immortal Story of Dr Kotnis 46–7
Dramatic Performances Act (1876) 16
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) 74–5, 76
Dravidar Kazhagam 49, 74
DreamWorks 104
dubbing in Indian cinema 58, 89
Duniya Na Mane/The World Will not Accept 39
Dutt, A. N. (Amarendra Nath) 7
Dutt, Geeta 58
Dutt, Guru 60, 69–71, 116
Dutt, Sanjay 102
Dutt, Utpal 86

E

East India Company 10
Eisenstein, Sergei 83
Ek Chalis Ki Last Local/The Last Train at One Forty 104
Ek Hasina Thi/There Was Once a Girl 108
Elippathayam/The Rat Trap 81
Elphinstone Theatre Company 14
Emergency in India 83, 88, 90, 91, 92
Empire Film 25, 28
Empire Marketing Board 43
Epidemic Diseases Act 29
Ermeline 6
Ezhai Padum Padu/Plight of the Poor 50

F

Fairbanks, Douglas 63, 75
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) 106, 109–10, 115
Fellini, Federico 85
Film Advisory Board 43
film exhibition, late colonial boom 24, 25
film finance 19, 30, 31, 59–60, 61, 69, 70, 79, 89, 105
criminalization/black money 102–4
Lahore 32, 36
Film Finance Corporation 84, 86, 87, 90, 93, 122
Film in National Life Report (1932) 27
film industry xvii, xviii
after Independence 53–4, 61, 66, 69, 70, 71
colonialism 25–7, 30
crime 102–5
cultural nationalism 17
Emergency 90–1
globalization 109–12
Malayalam 77, 80
origins of 1–4
origins of Bollywood 98–9
state reform 88–9
social stigma 31
Tamil 75
Telugu 79
third world 57
theatre 7
trading capital 32, 36
Film Inquiry Committee 1951 (S. K. Patil, Chairman) 53, 57, 60, 64, 70
film production in India xvii, 3, 4, 37, 38, 39, 43, 44, 54, 60, 99, 105, 106, 111
drop in regional production 82
late colonialism 24–7, 31, 32, 33
multilingual productions 63, 77
professional studios 19–20
Filmistan Studio 37, 56, 60
Five Year Plans (Government of India) 98
Flaherty, Robert 83

G

Gandhi, Indira 83, 88
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) 2, 18, 20, 51, 53
Ganesan, Sivaji 75
Ganesha Community Festival 17
Ganga Jumna 64
Gangs of Wasseypur, The 109
Gemini Film Company (Madras) 63, 64
Getino, Octavio 85
Ghatak, Ritwik 71, 89
Ghattashraddha/The Ritual 81
Ghose, Girish Chandra 7
Ghosh, Nemai 46
Girdwood, Hilton DeWitt 13
Gopalakrishnan, Adoor 78, 80
Government of India Act (1935) 42
Gramophone Company of India 59
Grant, Cary 56
Great Eastern Film Corporation (Delhi) 33, 35
Grierson, John 42, 43
Gujarat 76, 93
Gul-e-Bakavali/The Magic Flower 21, 22, 23, 32
Gul-e-Bakavali Katha (Telugu) 22
Gulzar 83, 94
Gurata, Ahmet 97

H

Haasil/Acquisition 108
Haider 113
Haider, Ghulam 62
Halu Jenu/Milk and Honey 82
Hartley, Len 37
Hey Ram 104
Higson, Andrew 27
Hill, Miss Gaby 6
Himmatwala/The Braveheart 64
Hindu Mahasabha 38
Hollywood 3, 7, 20, 26, 27, 39, 48, 57, 62, 103, 104
Hugo, Victor 50
Hunterwali/Lady With the Whip 24

I

Ibsen, Henrik 40
Imperial Assemblage (Delhi) 10
Imperial Film Company 20, 24, 33
Imperial Preference 28
Independence and spike in film production 54
Independence and stardom 54–5
Indian Cinematograph Act (1951) 52
Indian Cinematograph Committee Report (1927–8) 1, 29, 30, 53
Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association 44, 45, 86
information technology (IT) 98
Interview 85, 86
Irani, Ardeshir 20, 24, 30, 31, 33, 89, 103

J

Jana Aranya/The Middleman 90
Jariwala, Shefali 101
Jaws 104
Jayalalitha, J. 75
Jayashree 46
Jeetendra 64
Jinhe Mera Dil Luteya/They Who Have Stolen My Heart 110
Johar, Karan 110, 114, 115, 117
Jugnu 55
Jukti Takko Aar Gappo/Reason, Debate and a Story 89

K

Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna/Never Say Goodbye 115
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham … /Occasional Joy and Sorrow 114–15, 117
Kajol 63, 115
Kala Bazaar/Black Market 60
Kalpana 45
Kamalahasan 104
Kapadia, Dimple 116
Kapoor, Raj 55, 58, 59, 60, 64, 94, 96, 97, 103
Kapur, Geeta 41
Karanth, B. V. 80, 81
Kardar, A. R. (Abdur Rashid) 59
Karma 36
Karnad, Girish 80, 81, 92
Karnataka 81
Karunanidhi, M. 75
Kasaravalli, Girish 80, 81
Kashmir 21, 49, 107, 113
Kashmiri, Aga Hashr 14
Kashyap, Anuraag xxii, 108, 109, 113, 117, 118
Kaul, Mani xxii, 84, 86–7, 89
Kaushal, Kamini 50, 55, 58, 63
Keechak Vadh/The Killing of Keechaka 17
Kerala State Film Development Corporation 77
Kerala xvi, 49, 77, 78
blade companies 80
Keskar, B. V. 59
Khadilkar K. P. (Krisunaji Prabhakar) 17
Khalil 21, 34
Khan, Aamir 110, 111
Khan, Farah 115
Khan, Salman 110
Khan, Shah Rukh 63, 110, 112, 115
Khandhar/The Ruin 85
Khanduri, Sanjay 104
Khanna, Rajesh 92
Kharbanda, Kulbhushan 92
Khatau-Alfred Theatre Company 14
Khosla ka Ghosla/Khosla’s Nest 113
Kinemacolour 12
Kohinoor Film Company (Bombay) 20, 22, 34
Kolhapur Cinetone (Kolhapur) 14
Komal Gandhar/E-Flat 71
Korean Wave 98
Kripalani, Pawan 110
Krishnaveni 51
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai/Something Happening Within Me 114–15
Kumar, Ashok 36, 60
Kumar, Dilip 50, 55, 58, 64
Kumar, Gulshan 100, 101, 102, 105
Kumar, Kishore 50, 58, 84
Kumar, Rajendra 63

L

Lahore cinema 31–2, 35, 51, 63
Lajpatrai, Rala 28
Larkin, Brian 97
Lean, David 83
Light of Asia, The 33, 36
lithography 15
Livingstone, Ken 116
Logan, A. C. 16
Loves of a Mughal Prince, The 33
Lubitsch, Ernst 40
Luck By Chance 118
Luthria, Milan 110

M

M&E (media & entertainment industry) 110
Macmillan, Harold 42
Madan Theatres 12, 14, 24
Madhu 82
Madhumati 64
Madhya Pradesh 78
mafia 104
Mahabharata 2, 20, 28
Maharashtra 38, 40, 76
Maharashtra Film Company 38
Mahavir Photoplays 5
Maintenance of Internal Security Act 88
Majumdar, Neepa 6, 47
Majumdar, Phani 50
Malhotra, Manish 115, 117
Mammootty 82
Manadesam/Our Country 51
Mangeshkar, Lata 58, 84, 101
Manipur 78
Manmohan Theatre (Calcutta) 7
Manthan/The Churning 93
Manthiri Kumari/The Minister’s Daughter 75
Maqbool 113
Master Sajid 68
Master Surendra 68
Mathilukal/The Walls 81
Mati Manas/Mind of Clay 87
Meghe Dhaka Tara/The Cloud Capped Star 71
Mehboob 38, 55, 59, 60, 66–9
Mehra, Prakash 91
Mela/Festival 55
Mere Apne/Our Own 94
Minerva Theatre (Calcutta) 7
modernism in India 41, 45, 71
Mohanlal 82
Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms 29
Mother India 38, 66
Motion Picture Export Association of America 92
Mughal-e-Azam/Emperor of Mughals 33, 117
Mukesh 58
Mukha Mukham/Face to Face 81
Mukherjee, Hrishikesh 82, 88
Mukherjee, S. (Shashadhar) 60
Mukherjee, Sujit 114
Munim, Tina 117
Muqaddar ka Sikandar/Destiny’s Conqueror 91, 95
Murder 2 110
music 10, 97, 106
classical 87
industrial boom 56
live 6–8
playback 58–9
remix 98–100
‘song-dance’ spectacular 61, 62
Muthu 97
mutiny, Sepoy (First Indian War of Independence, 1857) 13
My Name is Khan xvii

N

Nabanna 44
Nadeem-Shravan 101
Nadia, Fearless 24
Nag, Anant 92
Nagaiah, Chittor V. 50
Nagarjuna 108
Narayanrao Peshwa 14
Nargis 55, 58, 66
National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) 83
National Dairy Development Board 93
National Film Archive of India 4
National Film Development Corporation 88
nationalism in India 17, 18, 49, 50, 55, 70, 73, 76, 77
regional 74
Naushad Ali 62
Navketan studio 56, 60, 70
Navya literary movement 81
Naxalite 76, 86
Nayyar, O. P. (Omkar Prasad) 63
Neecha Nagar/The Lower Depths 44
Nehru, Jawaharlal 49, 70, 93
New Indian Cinema xxii, 72, 76, 83, 84, 85, 86–8, 89, 90–2, 94
industrial development 78
in South India 79–82
New Theatres 40, 53, 64, 65, 69
No One Killed Jessica 110
No Smoking 113
non-resident Indian (NRI) 115
Nurjehan 55, 58

O

Om Shanti Om 115
Opera House (Calcutta) 15
Oriental American Biograph Company 8
Orissa 78
Orsini, Francesca 11
Osten, Franz 36
Oye Lucky Lucky Oye 113

P

Paanch/Five 112
Padatik/The Guerilla Fighter 85, 86
Padmalaya Studios 64
painting 10–15, 71
Pakeezah 117
Pakistan xvi, 63
Pal, Niranjan 33
Palekar, Amol 94
Palnati Yuddham/Battle of Palnadu 51
Parasakthi/The Goddess 75
Parash Pathar/The Philosopher’s Stone 69
Parsee Theatre 14, 21, 22
Partition of India xvi, 49, 51
Patala Bhairavi/The Goddess of Erebus 64
Patankar, S. N. (Sree Nath) 12, 13, 14, 19
Pather Panchali/Song of the Road 3, 65, 66, 68, 69
Patil, Smita 92
Pendakur, Manjunath 104
Pendharkar, Bhalji 38
Phalke, Dhundiraj Govind (Dadasaheb) 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 18, 19, 22
Pitru Prem/Father’s Love 5, 6, 7, 10, 21, 22, 23
Prabhat Film Company (Kolhapur/Pune) 14, 38, 40, 53, 59
Prakash, Khemchand 62
Prasad, L. V. 51
Pratidwandi/Adversary 90
Prisoner of Zenda, The 57
Punjab 28, 63, 78, 79, 86, 94, 115
Punjab Land Alienation Act, 1901 32
Puri, Amrish 92
Puri, Om 92
Pyaasa/the Thirsty One 70

Q

Quit India Movement (1942) 43

R

Ra-One 110, 112
Radhakrishnan, Ratheesh 80
radio 59, 99
Rafi, Mohammad 58
Raghavan, Sriram 108
Ragini MMS 110
Rai, Anant 110
Rai, Himanshu 33, 35–7
Raja Harishchandra/King Harishchandra (1913) 1, 2, 5, 8
Rajkamal Kalamandir 59
Rajkumar 82
Rajnikant 95, 96, 97
Rama Rao, N. T. (Nandamuri Tarakarama) 22, 33, 64
Ramabhramam, Gudavalli 51
Ramachandran M. G. 22, 50, 75
Ramchandra C. (Chitalkar) 56, 62
Ramnoth, K. 50
Ramprashad, Hakim 35
Ranaut, Kangana 110
Rani, Devika 36
Ranjit Film Company (Bonbay) 54
Rathnam, Mani 64, 107, 108
Ray Choudhury, Upendrakishore 65
Ray, Satyajit 3, 65–9, 70, 83, 85, 90
Ray, Sukumar 65
Ready 110
Reddy, K. V. 64
Reddy, Pattabhirama 81
Rehman, Waheeda 94
Reliance Big 104
Reuben, Bunny 60
Ripon Theatre (Calcutta) 7
Robertson & Beato 13
Rocha, Glauber 85
Roja 107
Roy, Bimal 40, 46, 64, 94, 117
Roy, Charu 33
Roy, D. L. (Dwijendralal) 7, 8
Roy, Sharmistha 115
Roy, Subroto 107
Rushdie, Salman 67

S

Sagar Film Company (Bombay) 60
Sagar, Ramanand 63
Sagoo, Bally 100, 101
Sahara-India 107
Sahni, Balraj 46
Saifi, Nadeem 101
Salem, Abu 102
Salim-Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar) 90
Samadhi/Divine Union 101
Sampat, D. N. (Dwarkadas) 20
Samskara/The Rites 81
Sant Tukaram/Tukaram the Saint 41
Sara Akash/The Whole Sky 94
Sasikumar, M. 114
Sathyan 82
Satya/Truth 104, 108
Scott, Walter 14
Seemabaddha/Company Limited 90
Sen, Hiralal 12
Sen, Mrinal 85, 86, 89
Sen, Suchitra 83
Sestier Marius xv
Seton, Marie 69, 83, 84, 85
Shah, Bharat 102, 104, 105, 111, 112, 115
Shah, Naseeruddin 92, 93
Shaheed/Martyr 50, 55
Shakeel, Chhota 102, 105
Shankar, Pandit Ravi 45
Shankar, Uday 45
Shantaram, V. 38–40, 46–7, 59, 64, 66
Sharada, S. 78
Sharma, Ashwani 100
Shaw, Alexander 43, 61
Shaw, George Bernard 40
Shehnai 56
Shiraz 33, 35, 36
Shirin Farhad 24
Shri 420/Mr 420 55
Siddheshwari 87
Silk Smitha 110
Singh, Amar 107
Singh, K. N. (Krishan Niranjan) 60
Singham 110
Sinha, Tapan 94
Social Hygiene Delegation 29
soft power and Bollywood 98
Solanas, Fernando 85
Spielberg, Steven 104, 118
Sridevi 64
Srinivas, S. V. 79
Star Theatre (Calcutta) 7
States Reorganization Act (1956) 74
still photography 10–14, 116
Subarnarekha/The Golden Line 71
Subramaniapuram 114
Sujata 64
Sulochana (Ruby Myers) 6, 21, 33
Sunder, Shyam 62
Suraiya 58
Suri, Mohit 110
Susman/Essence 93
swadeshi 2, 3, 16, 17, 18, 19, 62
Swayamvaram/One’s Own Choice 78

T

T-Series 100
Tagore, Rabindranath 65
Taj, Imtiaz Ali 33, 35
Tamil Nadu xvi, xvii, 49
Tanu Weds Manu 110
Tarantino, Quentin 118
Taxi Driver 56, 60
Teesri Kasam/The Third Vow 94
Telangana 92, 93
television in India 10, 88, 93, 94, 99, 101, 106, 110
direct-to-home 112
Tharoor, Shashi 98
Throw of Dice, A 36
Thumri 6
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar 16–17, 19
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam/A River Named Titash 89
Traffic 110

U

Ulfat-e-Mohammed/Loves of Prince Mohammed 34
Urban, Charles 12
Uski Roti/His Bread 86, 89

V

Varma, Raja Ravi 15
Varma, Ramgopal 104, 107, 108
Vasan, S. S. 45, 57, 63
Veer Zaara 63
Veeranna, Gubbi 79
Velaikkari/The Maid 74
Viacom 99, 111
Vidyavinode, Khirode Prasad 7, 8
Vijaya Studio 64
Vividh Bharati Film Music channel on All India Radio 59
Von Spreti, Carl 36–7

W

Wadia Movietone 25, 55
war propaganda 42
Wasserman, Lew 104
Webber, Andrew Lloyd 116
Welch, Stuart Cary 12
Wildcat of Bombay 21
Wirsching, Josef 36

Y

Yaadon Ki Baraat/Procession of Memories 99
Yatra/Journey 93

Z

Zanjeer/Chains 91
Zavattini, Cesare 66
Ziddi/The Stubborn One 56
Zubeida 21