Ghosh: Bollywood Baddies

Ghosh, Tapan Kumar:
Bollywood Baddies : Villains, Vamps, and Henchmen in Hindi Cinema / Tapan K. Ghosh. - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2013. - xviii, 213 S. : Ill.
ISBN 978-81-321-1097-2 (Paperback)
US$ 35,95 (Sage USA)
Rs. 395,00 (Sage India)
ISBN 978-81-321-1326-3 (eBook)
EUR 27,73
DDC: 791.43652

Beschreibung
Bollywood Baddies is the first-of-its-kind book-length narrative of villainy in Hindi films. It discusses villains, vamps, and henchmen of Bollywood cinema, and also the actors who essayed such characters over the decades. The author discusses not just villains but also the evaluation of villainous characters vis-à-vis sociopolitical conditions in the country.
   The narrative begins with Ashok Kumar's negative role in Kismet as early as 1943, and goes up to the Agneepath remake (2012), where Sanjay Dutt plays Kancha Cheena, earlier essayed by Danny Denzongpa in the original. In between, it discusses all major villains, from Lala Sukhiram (Mother India) to Gabbar (Sholay) to "Lion" Ajit (Kalicharan) to Mogambo (Mr. India), and many others. While keeping villains in the focus, it also discusses popular henchmen and vamps, like M B Shetty, Sharat Saxena, Nadira, Bindu, Helen, among others, to understand the dimension of the villains' empire. After all, it's our villains who make our protagonist the hero we all admire. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Foreword
Preface
I. KNOWING THE BADDIES
   Who are These Villains?
II. THE BADDIES IN ACTION
   The Fifties and Sixties
   Sholay and the Seventies
   The Eighties and After
III. EMPIRE OF EVIL AND THE EMPERORS
   That Other Self: The Vamps
   The Empire of Evil: Villains' Henchmen
   Those Dreadful Men
   The Unforgettable Baddies
   The End!

Autor

Tapan K. Ghosh, former head, Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.

Quellen: Sage Publications (USA); SAGE India; WorldCat; eBooks.com; Bookbutler; Library of Congress
Bildquelle: Sage Publications
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