About the Book: Rendezvous with Hindi Cinema
Indian cinema hasnt been as much talked about worldwide since probably the
first works of Satyajit Ray which were shown at the Cannes Film Festival in the
1950s-1960s. Renewed interest for the biggest film industry in the world doesnt
mean its complexity is well understood abroad or even inside India itself.
Bollywood especially seems to have taken over all the other industries as if to
become the only representative for Indian cinema; and Hindi cinema struggles to
be known as anything else than Bollywood. Still, youd probably have to go back
to the 1970s to see, in Bombay