HiFi in Bollywood

HiFi in Bollywood
Author: Rishi Vohra
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-01-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8184956487

An aspiring filmmaker. The dizzying heights of Bollywood. And a strained father-son relationship. Rayhan Arora’s long cherished dream is to be a filmmaker in the Hindi Film Industry but his formidable father has other plans… a successful financial career in Corporate America, and a marriage of convenience with Vanita, a medical student in the US. In a final act of desperation, Rayhan abandons his promising life in California and secretly returns to Mumbai to work as an Assistant Director in Bollywood. The characters he encounters along the way become part of his journey of self-discovery - a self-proclaimed local goon with a penchant for acting; a powerful local politician who wants to marry Rayhan’s part-time domestic help, who in turn covets stardom; an angst-ridden, homosexual film director; ego-ridden film stars with twisted agendas; and the mysterious Viola who captures his heart. HiFi in Bollywood takes the reader from the streets of Berkeley to the film studios of Mumbai; from red-light areas to police stations, and from reality to dreams and back to reality again! Rishi Vohra relocated back to Mumbai after completing a Green MBA from San Francisco State University and a Masters Diploma in Environmental Law, prior to which he had an extensive career in the Indian Entertainment Industry. His debut novel Once Upon the Tracks of Mumbai was a bestseller and awarded a special mention at the Hollywood Book Festival. He writes for delWine and is a Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW). Visit him at www.rishivohra.com

Yodel in Hi-Fi

Yodel in Hi-Fi
Author: Bart Plantenga
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013-02-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0299290530

Yodel in Hi-Fi explores the vibrant and varied traditions of yodelers around the world. Far from being a quaint and dying art, yodel is a thriving vocal technique that has been perennially renewed by singers from Switzerland to Korea, from Colorado to Iran. Bart Plantenga offers a lively and surprising tour of yodeling in genres from opera to hip-hop and in venues from cowboy campfires and Oktoberfests to film soundtracks and yogurt commercials. Displaying an extraordinary versatility, yodeling crosses all borders and circumvents all language barriers to assume its rightful place in the world of music. “If Wisconsin wasn’t on the yodel music map before, this book puts it there.”—Wisconsin State Journal

Bollywood Travels

Bollywood Travels
Author: Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0415447402

This title offers a cultural and social analysis of contemporary Bollywood films over the past decade, exploring the ideas of nation, race, religion, gender and sexuality, cinema and public spaces, diaspora and globalization.

More Than Bollywood

More Than Bollywood
Author: Gregory D. Booth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2014
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199928835

"This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular music in India. It brings together fourteen of the field's leading scholars to contribute chapters on a range of topics, from the classic songs of Bollywood to contemporary remixes. The chapters in this volume address the impact of media and technology on contemporary music, the variety of industrial developments and contexts for Indian popular music, and historical trends in popular music development both before and after the Indian Independence in 1947. The contributors also address the subcontinent's historical relationships with colonialism, the transnational market economies, local governmental factors, international conventions, and a host of other circumstances that shed light on the development of popular music throughout India. To illustrate each chapter author's points and to make available music otherwise not always easily accessible, the book features a companion website of audio and video tracks." --

Devotional Fanscapes

Devotional Fanscapes
Author: Shalini Kakar
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2023-01-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1793646287

Devotional Fanscapes examines the practices and materiality of fans who worship film stars as divine figures. This book is an analysis of visual culture and star temples that bring cinema, fandom, religion, and politics into undocumented negotiations in national and transnational contexts.

Bollywood for All

Bollywood for All
Author: Sonali Rai
Publisher:
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2009
Genre: Audiodescription
ISBN: 9781444500387

Primarily visual mediums, films/TV programmes, are often difficult to appreciate if one is only hearing them. Audio Description (AD) enhances an audience's involvement by adding a narrative, which draws word pictures for the audience. This report can be used as a reference tool by those planning the introduction of AD in their films.

Global Bollywood

Global Bollywood
Author: Anandam P. Kavoori
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2008-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 081474799X

Global Bollywood brings together leading scholars to examine the transnational and transmedia terrain of Bollywood. Defining Bollywood as an arena of public culture distinct from Hindi-language Bombay cinema, this volume offers a new critical framework for analyzing the institutional, cultural, and political dimensions of Bollywood films and film music as they begin to constitute an important circuit of global flows in the twenty-first century.

Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship

Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship
Author: Laura Brueck
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0472126237

From the cinema to the recording studio to public festival grounds, the range and sonic richness of Indian cultures can be heard across the subcontinent. Sound articulates communal difference and embodies specific identities for multiple publics. This diversity of sounds has been and continues to be crucial to the ideological construction of a unifying postcolonial Indian nation-state. Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. “Scapes, Sites, and Circulations” considers the spatial and circulatory ways in which sound “happens” in and around Indian sound cultures, including diasporic cultures. “Voice” emphasizes voices that embody a variety of struggles and ambiguities, particularly around gender and performance. Finally, “Cinema Sound” make specific arguments about film sound in the Indian context, from the earliest days of talkie technology to contemporary Hindi films and experimental art installations. Integrating interdisciplinary scholarship at the nexus of sound studies and South Asian Studies by questions of nation/nationalism, postcolonialism, cinema, and popular culture in India, Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship offers fresh and sophisticated approaches to the sonic world of the subcontinent.

Ganesha on the Dashboard

Ganesha on the Dashboard
Author: V Raghunathan
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 8184756186

Take the way we go about buying a new car. We identify an auspicious date and time, then proceed to break a coconut, plonk a plastic deity of Ganesha on the dashboard, and zoom off at great speed, refusing to wear our seatbelts. Supposedly educated, smart and tech-savvy, Indians can be surprisingly unscientific in their daily lives. Think of the crores spent every year remodelling homes according to vaastu, in the hope of changing luck; and the continued horrors of female infanticide, because it is only the son who can help the father’s journey to heaven... This unsparingly critical, scathingly analytical book points out the shocking lack of scientific temper among the vast majority of Indians, and how this holds us up as a nation in the twenty-first century.

Bollywood and Postmodernism

Bollywood and Postmodernism
Author: Neelam Sidhar Wright
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-06-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0748696350

Applying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has changed in the 21st century.