Cinema Asia: India
Cinema Asia: India
Release: 2007-08-01
·Runtime: 52m
Documentary
While Northern India’s 100-year-old film industry is best known for flamboyant dance sequences and romantic plot lines, its directors have begun to step outside established formulas and explore grittier subject matter. This program surveys the world of Bollywood filmmaking, examining the personalities as well as the commercial and thematic concerns that drive central Asia’s answer to Tinseltown. Interviews with directors Karan Johar, Ashutosh Gowariker, and Yash Chopra are included, along with commentary from choreographers, musical directors, and Cinemaya Magazine editor Aruna Vasudev. The industry’s newfound attention to poverty, homelessness, and other social concerns is examined. Several film excerpts are included.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Films for the Humanities
Films Media Group
Indecom Cinema
CJ ENM
Cast
Shah Rukh Khan
as Self (archive footage)
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
as Self
Mrinal Sen
as Self
Jahnu Barua
as Self
Yash Chopra
as Self
Malaika Arora
as Self
Ashutosh Gowariker
as Self
Vishal Bhardwaj
as Self
Urmila Matondkar
as Self
Sonu Nigam
as Self
Karan Johar
as Self
Lata Mangeshkar
as Self (archive footage)
Aparna Sen
as Self (archive footage)
Anupam Kher
as Self
Vaibhavi Merchant
as Self
Salman Khan
as Self