- Databazaar
- Bengali
- Aparna Sen
- Konkona Sen Sharma
BOMBAY TALKIE - DVD Movie
Bombay Talkie is Merchant Ivory's affectionate, bemused view of Bollywood-India's huge dream factory. The film is like a brightly colored sumptuous Indian sweet covered in gold foil, and cameraman Subrata Mitra's ravishing photography has never been surpassed in any other of James Ivory's films. The story, set off by elaborate studio numbers, is a melodrama echoing those of Bombay's mass audience movies and the sexy best sellers of the film's heroine, American authoress Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal). Visiting India in search of "new material", she becomes romantically involved with a handsome movie star (Shashi Kapoor,
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid). When that doesn't work, she flees to an ashram to take up the spiritual life. That also-hilariously-doesn't work out, and the ill-fated! couple get together again with explosive results. Mrinalini, an ageing actress, writes a suicide note. Her entry on the stage of life, had been outside her control but she wants to decide the moment of her exit at least. As she looks through the old box that contains relics from her past, memories flood the night. incidents that she had forgotten or relinquished to the furthest corners of her mind now return to haunt her and, through these memories, an entire life is revealed - a life of loves lost and gained, friendships and betrayals, successes and failures, accidents and awards, agonies and ecstasies... and, as Mrinalini relives her past. Does the performer really gain control over her exit from the stage of life as she had planned? Or does death in all its randomness claim her when she had least expected it to?
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