Bombay Talkie

Bombay Talkie
Bombay Talkie
	File:BombayTalkie.jpg
Directed by	James Ivory
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Written by	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; James Ivory
Starring	Shashi Kapoor; Jennifer Kendal; Aparna Sen; Zia Mohyeddin; Utpal Dutt
Music by	Shankar-Jaikishan
Cinematography	Subrata Mitra
Production; company	Merchant Ivory Productions
Release date	20 November 1970;
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	est. ₹110 lakh
Box office	est. ₹55 lakh

Bombay Talkie is a 1970 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.

Plot[edit]

Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal) is a British author who is researching the Bollywood film industry. She falls in love and has an affair with Vikram (Shashi Kapoor), a famous Bollywood actor. The plot is complicated by the fact that Vikram is married, and his friend, Hari (Zia Mohyeddin), is in love with Lucia.

Cast[edit]

Shashi Kapoor as Vikram
Jennifer Kendal as Lucia
Zia Mohyeddin as Hari
Aparna Sen as Mala
Utpal Dutt as Bose
Florence Ezekiel (Nadira) as Anjana Devi
Pinchoo Kapoor as Swamiji
Helen as Heroine in Gold
Usha Iyer as Cabaret Singer
Ruby Myers as Gopal Ma
Prayag Raj as Director
Jalal Agha as Young Man
Anwar Ali as Young Man
Mohan Nadkarni as Young Man
Sukhdev as Man at Bar^[1]

Soundtrack[edit]

Serial	Song Title	Singer(s)
1	"Good Times and Bad Times"	Usha Uthup
2	"Hari Om Tatsat"	Usha Uthup
3	"Tum Mere Pyaar Ki"	Mohammed Rafi
4	"Type Writer"	Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar

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Trivia[edit]

The film's song "Typewriter, Tip, Tip" (Music: Shankar-Jaikishan, Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri) and the opening credits theme were used in the Wes Anderson film The Darjeeling Limited and on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show.

Amitabh Bachchan played a minuscule role in the film. The actor confessed in an interview that Shashi Kapoor chided him for doing the role as he foresaw greater potential in Bachchan.^[3]

References[edit]

↑ "Bombay Talkie". IMDb. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
↑ "Bombay Talkie (1971) - Hindi Movie Songs - Bollywood MuVyz". Bombay Talkie (1971) - Hindi Movie Songs - Bollywood MuVyz.
↑ "The Enigmatic Kapoor". Daily Pioneer.

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[1] "Bombay Talkie". IMDb. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[2] "Bombay Talkie (1971) - Hindi Movie Songs - Bollywood MuVyz". Bombay Talkie (1971) - Hindi Movie Songs - Bollywood MuVyz.

[3] "The Enigmatic Kapoor". Daily Pioneer.

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