Bollywood Babylon: interviews with Shyam Benegal
by Benegal, Shyam, Van der Heide, William
fromAsian cinema
Shyam Benegal is one of India's major film directors. A career spanning more than 40 years includes documentaries and television programs as well as over 20 feature films. These lively interviews cover Benegal's life and work and, in doing so, present a history of Indian cinema.
Bollywood Babylon: interviews with Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal is one of India's major film directors. A career spanning more than 40 years includes documentaries and television programs as well as over 20 feature films. These lively interviews cover Benegal's life and work and, in doing so, present a history of Indian cinema.
"This book examines Shyam Benegal's films, alternative image(s) of India in his cinema and traces the changing aesthetics in the post-liberalization era. The book engages with the challenges faced by India as a nation-state in postcolonial times. Looking at hybrid and complex na…