Bombay Talkie

For the Scottish Bhangra band, see Bombay Talkie (band). For the film studio, see Bombay Talkies. For the 2013 film, see Bombay Talkies (film).

Bombay Talkie
Directed byJames Ivory
Written byRuth Prawer Jhabvala
James Ivory
Produced byIsmail Merchant
StarringShashi Kapoor
Jennifer Kendal
Aparna Sen
Zia Mohyeddin
Utpal Dutt
CinematographySubrata Mitra
Music byShankar–Jaikishan
Production
company
Release date
  • 20 November 1970 (1970-11-20)
Running time
112 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Budgetest. ₹110 lakh
Box officeest. ₹55 lakh

Bombay Talkie is a 1970 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.

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

Soundtrack

Serial Song title Singer(s)
1 "Good Times and Bad Times" Usha Uthup
2 "Hari Om Tatsat" Usha Uthup
3 "Tum Mere Pyaar Ki" Mohammed Rafi
4 "Type Writer" Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle

Trivia

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 minuscule 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]

References

  1. ^ "Bombay Talkie". IMDb. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  2. ^ "The Enigmatic Kapoor". Daily Pioneer.


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