Bombay Talkie
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Bombay Talkie is a 1970 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.
Plot
Lucia Lane is a British author who is researching the Bollywood film industry. She falls in love and has an affair with Vikram, a famous Bollywood actor. The plot is complicated by the fact that Vikram is married, and his friend, Hari, is in love with Lucia.
Cast
- Shashi Kapoor as Vikram
- Jennifer Kendal as Lucia
- Zia Mohyeddin as Hari
- Aparna Sen as Mala
- Utpal Dutt as Bose
- Florence Ezekiel (Nadira) as Anjana Devi
- Pinchoo Kapoor as Swamiji
- Helen as Heroine in Gold
- Usha Iyer as Cabaret Singer
- Ruby Myers as Gopal Ma
- Prayag Raj as Director
- Jalal Agha as Young Man
- Anwar Ali as Young Man
- Mohan Nadkarni as Young Man
- Sukhdev as Man at Bar[1]
- Amitabh Bachchan as Himself (Special appearance)
Soundtrack
| Serial | Song title | Singer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Type Writer" | Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle |
| 2 | "Good Times and Bad Times" | Usha Uthup |
| 3 | "Hari Om Tatsat" | Usha Uthup |
| 4 | "Tum Mere Pyaar Ki" | Mohammed Rafi |
Trivia
The film's song "Typewriter, Tip, Tip" (Music: Shankar–Jaikishan, Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri) and the opening credits theme were used in the Wes Anderson film The Darjeeling Limited and on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show.
Amitabh Bachchan played a small role in the film. The actor confessed in an interview that Shashi Kapoor chided him for doing the role as he foresaw greater potential in Bachchan.[2]
References
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- Script error: No such module "If empty". at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:WikidataCheck
- Merchant Ivory overview
- Blogpost on the film's title sequence
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- 1970 films
- 1970 romantic drama films
- English-language Indian films
- Films set in Mumbai
- Merchant Ivory Productions films
- Films directed by James Ivory
- Films with screenplays by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Films about filmmaking
- Films scored by Shankar–Jaikishan
- Films with screenplays by James Ivory
- Indian romantic drama films
- 1970s English-language films
- English-language romantic drama films