Bombay Talkie
{{short description|1970 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Bombay Talkie
| image = BombayTalkie.jpg
| caption =
| director = James Ivory
| producer = Ismail Merchant
| writer = Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
James Ivory
| starring = Shashi Kapoor
Jennifer Kendal
Aparna Sen
Zia Mohyeddin
Utpal Dutt
| music = Shankar–Jaikishan
| cinematography = Subrata Mitra
| editing =
| studio = Merchant Ivory Productions
| distributor =
| released = {{film date|df=y|1970|11|20}}
| runtime = 112 minutes
| language = English
| country = {{plainlist|
- United States
- India
}}
| budget = {{Estimation}} {{INR|110 lakh}}
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR|55 lakh}}
}}
Bombay Talkie is a 1970 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.
Plot
Lucia Lane is a British author who is researching the Bollywood film industry. She falls in love and has an affair with Vikram, a famous Bollywood actor. The plot is complicated by the fact that Vikram is married, and his friend, Hari, is in love with Lucia.
Cast
- 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{{Cite web |title=Bombay Talkie |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065484/ |access-date=22 August 2020 |website=IMDb}}
- Amitabh Bachchan as Himself (Special appearance)
Soundtrack
| class="wikitable"
! Serial !! Song title !! Singer(s) | ||
| 1 | "Type Writer" | Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle |
| 2 | "Good Times and Bad Times" | Usha Uthup |
| 3 | "Hari Om Tatsat" | Usha Uthup |
| 4 | "Tum Mere Pyaar Ki" | Mohammed Rafi |
Legacy
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 small 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.{{Cite web |title=The Enigmatic Kapoor |url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/sunday-edition/the-enigmatic-kapoor.html |work=Daily Pioneer}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0065484|title=Bombay Talkie}}
- [http://www.merchantivory.com/bombay.html Merchant Ivory overview]
- [http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/08/11/bombay-talkie/ Blogpost on the film's title sequence]
{{Merchant Ivory Productions}}
{{James Ivory}}
Category:1970 romantic drama films
Category:English-language Indian films
Category:Merchant Ivory Productions films
Category:Films directed by James Ivory
Category:Films with screenplays by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Category:Films about filmmaking
Category:Films scored by Shankar–Jaikishan
Category:Films with screenplays by James Ivory
Category:Indian romantic drama films
Category:1970s English-language films
Category:English-language romantic drama films
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