Bullets Over Bombay

 📍 This book is about a movie which released in 1988. This movie was the first one to be on a Mumbai gangster, showing gritty side of Mumbai. 


📍 At a time when Bollywood was still rediscovering romance, Ram Gopal Varma's film dared to imagine the ordinary life of a Mumbai gangster. It kicked off a new wave of Hindi gangster films that depicted a vital side of Mumbai, which was rarely shown in mainstream cinema until then. 


📍 Now, it has become an iconic film. When it was released, the regular moviegoer would have been hard to recognise more than a couple of names in the film's credits. Today, it reads like an honour roll - Manoj Bajpayee, Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Saurabh Shukla. 


📍 The author Uday Bhatia has told the story of how it(film making, story and all) all came together, how it drew from the gangster and street film traditions, and why and how it went on to become a modern classic. 


📍 The writing work and the research done on it is well done, language of the book is also easy to understand. The book is a good to go. Check it out to more more about it.

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