Jerry Pinto

Main saare zamaane ke gham ki dawaa hoon. (I am the cure of all the sorrows of the world.) Lyrics from Helen’s song in the film Adhikaar (1971) It is now ...

Peter Brook

Adapted from a series of four lectures, originally delivered as the first of the Granada Northern Lectures Peter Brook's The Empty Space is an exp...

Dave Smith

Walt Disney said, "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main. . . ." ...

Neil Sinyard

Traces Woody Allen's career from his first screen role in "What's new, pussycat?" to his most recent "Hannah and her sisters"

Angie Thomas

Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who...

Khagesh Dev Burman

An unpredictable music composer who defied the conventions of his time, a trendsetter who introduced a fusion of Western rock and jazz with Indian classical mus...

Ashok Raj

This volume traces the growth of the indigenous Hindi film hero from the silent era up to Dilip Kumar. The film hero is depicted as a credible representative of...

Ashok Rai

This volume focuses on the life and times of the ‘star of the millennium’, Amitabh Bachchan, and goes on to describe his contemporaries such as Shas...

Bani Basu

Gandharvi: Life of a Musician tells the story of Apala, a gifted singer of Hindustani classical music, whose extraordinary gift gets buried under various famili...

S.M. M. Ausaja

A rare compilation of hand-printed as well as digitalized landmark Hindi film posters from the 1930s to the present - both tracing the journey of an art form an...

Michael A. Singer , Jerry Bruckheimer

Yasser Usman

Sanjay Dutt is the original bad boy of Bollywood. In the early 1980s, it was not uncommon to him passed out over the steering wheel of his car on a suburban roa...