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Bombay Talkie
1970 film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bombay Talkie is a 1970 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.
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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)
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Soundtrack
Legacy
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]
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