About the Book: Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain
Nasir Husain-by every appraisal as great a film-maker as Mehboob Khan or Raj
Kapoor, Bimal Roy or Guru Dutt, Yash Chopra or Manmohan Desai-yet unforgivably
under-appreciated. His career as writer-director-producer, spanning nearly five
decades, has shaped commercial Hindi cinema as it exists today. In fact, he
remains to this day one of Hindi cinemas most commercially successful figures.
Akshay Manwani takes the first big step to restore that balance with Music,
Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain.
Starting off as a writer with films like Shabnam, Anarkali, Munimji and Paying
Guest, Nasir Husain debuted as