This is THE BOOK that every Hindi movie lover should own. It celebrates Indian cinema with 400 pages of spectacular photographs, in-depth stories of the stars and of every great Hindi film and its context. The production quality of this book is unmatched, as is the lively and lucid writing.
Bollywood has become one of the largest film industries in the world, producing over 800 films a year. In the course of its century-long history, it has steadily turned these myths, folk tales and legends of India into the modernity of motion pictures. Today, Bollywood attracts over one billion spectators worldwide. 'Bollywood - Popular Indian Cinema' celebrates what is now a far-reaching cultural phenomenon.