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58 VIVACITY MAGAZINE • 15 MAY - 14 JUNE 2013 www.vivacitymagazines.com 5915 MAY - 14 JUNE 2013 • VIVACITY MAGAZINE www.vivacitymagazines.com
elodrama, molten emotion, and histrionics spilling over into the dark stroboscopic theatre galleries punctuated with applause at the valor of the hero, the sacri� ces of the coy heroine, golden hearted risqué temptresses, and hushed silence of impending retribution...
designed to climax to a “happily living ever a� er”
All loose ends bow-tied into a package of catharsis, with incongruence acceptable and beliefs suspended.
Despite their obvious escapade tendencies, the Bollywood movie model carries an unshakeable optimism against cynicism
Indian Cinema started with the Lumiere Brothers showing “Train Pulling into a Station” in 1896, in a show at Watson’s Hotel in Bombay. � e following year two short pioneering � lms were made by Save Dada.
ARUN KHANNA
A TAKE ONA TAKE ONA TAKE ON
BOLLYWOODBOLLYWOOD
THEATRICSIn fond memory of songs, dance and
drama over the decades of maudlin
emotion, social hiccups & causes
– a take on Bollywood’s style that
marks the distinct decades from
the 1950s to the 2000s -Priyanka
Karki takes it on with fun and frisk!
BOLLYWOODTHEATRICS
MAKING
100YEARSOF FILM
No female applicants came forward except for sex workers from Bombay’s red-light areas, but even they eventually backed out. � e female parts were � nally played by male actors; and yet the success of Raja Harishchandra was such that for his second � lm, Dadasaheb had no trouble � nding actresses.
To woo his audience away from the stage to the screen, Dadasaheb Phalke promoted his � lms as: “A performance with 57,000 photographs, a picture two miles long, all for only three annas.”
Eighteen years later, in 1931, four anna tickets were selling in black for 4 to 5 rupees on the opening day of the � rst talkie Alam Ara, creating legendary stars as Prithvi Raj Kapoor.
From the times of arduous set-painting by the as-of-then, unknown M F Hussein painting the studio set of the historical drama Anarkali for just 75 rupees in 1953 (a single painting of his, in 2010 sold for 2 crore Indian rupees) to the Belgian glass-studded sets of Mughal-E-Azam which took two years to build, dreams were making their way to the reality of Bollywood, creating the biggest � lm industry in the world.
Songs abounded, Alam Ara included about a dozen, Indrasabha, is said to have had 59 songs. Shirin Farhad had 42. Dance, fantasy and maudlin drama combined to formulate the Bollywood genres of � lm making. Despite that, social consciousness remained entwined in the ethos of � lm making. Legends like V.Shantaram, Bimal Roy, Raj Kapoor and Mehboob Khan made their � lms with a strong social purpose.
Technologies from the Tanar camera to the ARRIFLEX have driven its cinematography. Pioneering tent shows to state-of-the-art multiplexes have projected its images, and productions steeped in debt to mega extravaganzas have moved the likes of 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros along with hundreds of top notch home productions overshadowing even Hollywood budgets.
Enjou it.
PHOTO FEATURE
Model: Priyanka KarkiPhotographer: Rajiv ShresthaMake up & Hair: SophieStylist: Subani B. MagarCreative Director: Arun Khanna
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In fond memory of songs, dance and
drama over the decades of maudlin
emotion, social hiccups & causes
– a take on Bollywood’s style that
marks the distinct decades from
the 1950s to the 2000s -Priyanka
Karki takes it on with fun and frisk! Exactly hundred years ago a � lm by Dada Saheb Phalke, Raja Harishchandra, screened at Coronation Cinema in Bombay on 3rd May 1913, marking the beginning of feature � lm productions in India.
Initial advertisements brought a surplus lack of talented applicants and Dadasaheb was forced to add a line saying “ugly faces need not apply.”
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1950sDespite male dominated plots with men saving women in distress, leading ladies possessed the ability to change things;
the hand and heart behind the resolution of any purpose.
The 50s - a docile demeanor, urban and coy, caught between social throes. A period of Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa, Raj Kapoor’s
Awaara, and Raj Khosla’s Dev Anand starrer Kaala Pani
1960sRomance, rock & roll, a feline Helen, and thrills. Oomph and tradition got mixed up. Romantic and action films starred actors like Rajesh
Khanna, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar and Shammi Kapoor with leading lades like Sharmila Tagore, Mumtaz and Asha Parekh…
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Guns and guts rubbed shoulders with gritty gangsters. Daring damsels helped or scalped the hero. Hemlines went up and necklines plunged; A social order at stake, that not always matched with established status quo… A time when the
“angry young man” emerged with Amitabh Bachan, polka dots with Parveen Bobby & a hip swinging Zeenat Aman
Guns and guts rubbed shoulders with gritty gangsters. Daring damsels helped or scalped the hero. Hemlines went up and
Guns and guts rubbed shoulders with gritty gangsters. Daring damsels helped or scalped the hero. Hemlines went up and
1970s
1980sThunder thighs, splashy colors, and Bollywood
choreography. A time when Jeetindra & shridev jigged up the numbers, with
pots, pitchers & skylines…
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1990sThe chocolaty hero and the cute girl next door; Romantic mush with serious consequences; Pigeons flying and love letters torn and rewritten, till the pigeons came back…
Model: Utsav Singh Adhikari
2000sWacky humor & city-
smart; Short on heavy dialogues, long on witty repartees…
out to enjoy and not to sob... an era of
designer films feeding the aspirations of a younger audience
metropolitans, often scoffing at the
maudlin emotions of the past.
Wacky humor & city-smart; Short on heavy
dialogues, long on witty repartees…
out to enjoy and not to sob... an era of
designer films feeding the aspirations of a younger audience
metropolitans, often scoffing at the
maudlin emotions of the past.