1 Lalita Gopalan, in the essay ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun? – Cinephilia and Indian Films’ in Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide (ed. Dimitris Eleftheriotis and Gary Needham, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), quotes Paul Willemen and his take on Cinephillia; see p. 326.
2 S. Chakravarty, National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema 1947–87, Austin: Austin University of Texas Press, 1993, p. 32.
3 Gulzar, ‘Portrait of a Poet’, Pukhraj, New Delhi: Rupa, 2005,
p. 167.
4 M. Gulzar, because he is…, New Delhi: Rupa, 2004, p. 23.
5 In conversation, Gulzar with Vishal Bharadwaj, at the 11th Osian’s Film Festival 2009.
6 From the interview appended in the book.
7 Harihar Swarup, ‘Kamleshwar Brings Out the Truth of Life’, http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031228/edit.htm#3, accessed on 10 October 2013.
8 Manoj CG, ‘SS Ray to Indira Gandhi six months before Emergency: Crack down, get law ready’, The Indian Express, 13 June 2015, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/six-months-before-emergency-s-s-ray-to-indira-gandhi-crack-down-get-law-ready/, accessed on 7 January 2016.
9 D. Lockwood, The Communist Party and the Indian Emergency, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2016, p. 111.
10 Ibid., p. 112.
11 Quoted in Erin O’Donnell, ‘Making Sense of Censorship: Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity, by William Mazzarella’, Senses of Cinema, June 2014, http://sensesofcinema.com/2014/book-reviews/making-sense-of-censorship-censorium-cinema-and-the-open-edge-of-mass-publicity-by-william-mazzarella/, accessed on 7 January 2016.
12 See ‘Where is reality?’, The Hindu, 20 July 2001, https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2001/07/20/stories/09200221.htm, accessed on 17 December 2018.
13 S. Chatterji, Suchitra Sen: The Legend and the Enigma, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015, p. 33.
14 The term ‘angry young man’ was initially coined for Jimmy Porter, the protagonist of John Osborne’s play, Look Back in Anger (1956). However, this term has also been used for Amitabh Bachchan and his films of 1970s.
15 V. Lal, Deewaar: The Footpath, the City and the Angry Young Man, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011, p. 3.
16 Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42, No. 5 (Dec 15–21, 2007), pp. 99–101; 103.
17 Imke Rajamani, ‘Pictures, Emotions, Conceptual Change: Anger in Popular Cinema’, Contribution to the History of Concepts, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2012, pp. 52–77.
18 Partha Chatterjee, ‘Indian Cinema: Then and Now’, India International Centre Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2012, p. 45.
19 Siddharth Bhatia, Amar Akbar Anthony: Masala, Madness and Manmohan Desai, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013, p. 88.
20 Chatterji, Suchitra Sen, p. 25.
21 Ibid., p. 53.
22 M.B. Chowdhury, Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen: Bengali Cinema’s First Couple, New Delhi: OM Books International, 2013, p. 17.
23 Ibid., p. 20.
24 See interview appended in this book.
25 Chatterji, Suchitra Sen, p. 20.
26 Ibid., p. 25.
27 Chowdhury, Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen, p. 54.
28 M.L. Dhawan, ‘He was an actor for all seasons’, The Tribune, 13 August 2000, http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000813/spectrum/main3.htm, accessed on 13 January 2016.
29 A. Ranade, Hindi Film Song: Music Beyond Boundaries, New Delhi and Chicago: Promilla & Co. Publishers, 2006, p. 124.
30 Ibid., p. 128.
31 Eleftheriotis and Needlam (eds), Asian Cinemas, p. 333.
32 Anil Zankar, Mughal-e-Azam: Legend as an Epic, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013, p. 126..
33 M. Desai, Pakeezah: An Ode to A Bygone World, New Delhi, HarperCollins Publishers, 2013, p. 132.
34 G. Anantharaman, Bollywood Melodies: A History of Hindi Film Song, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2008, p. 66.
35 Ibid., p. 21.
36 Ibid., p. 69.
37 A. Bhattacharjee and B. Vittal, R.D. Burman: The Man, The Music, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011, p. 155.
38 Ibid., p. 305.
39 See Appendix I for the lyrics of the songs.
40 Bhattacharjee and Vittal, R.D. Burman, p. 156.
41 Eleftheriotis and Needlam (eds) Asian Cinemas, p. 310.
42 Bhattacharjee and Vittal, R.D. Burman, p. 155.
43 The reference is to a character artist in Hindustani cinema, who was rather fat in appearance.
44 A Hindi magazine.
45 The reference is to the popular actress, Meena Kumari.
46 One of the first female politicians of India.
47 I.K. Gujral was the Minister of Information and Broadcasting at the time of Emergency (1975) and was later appointed as the Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union. See ‘Ex-Prime Minister IK Gujral dies at 92’, The Tribune, 1 December 2012, https://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20121201/main1.htm, accessed on 17 December 2018.
48 Indian National Theatre
49 The reference is to Prithviraj Kapoor.
50 The reference is to Dilip Kumar.
51 The protagonist from the film, Anand (1973).
52 The filmmaker, Hrishikesh Mukherjee.