![]() 'Bombay Talkies' is about four independent stories, directed by four reputed Bollywood directors, Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar & Anurag Kashyap. What was supposed to have been an extravagant celebration of cinema merely ends up like a moist firecracker. ![]() And a film that is supposed to pay a tribute to a century of celluloid adventures of Bollywood that have enthralled not only Indians but even those abroad, ought to have been better. Surely, we love all the extra drama, sometimes characters yelling out lines as if they were on a stage before mikes were invented and the truly inimitable song and dance. Till date, the influence of theater, and especially the roots from Sanksrit drama still play up in Bollywood's films. A bit of trivia there is that the female roles in the film were also played by male actors, and the acting talent was drawn from theater. Marked the day when motion picture was born in India, the day that Dadasaheb Phalke's silent film 'Raja Harishchandra' was released.
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