Bullets Over Bombay, Uday Bhatia
Bullets Over Bombay, Uday Bhatia
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Bullets Over Bombay
Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster

Author: Uday Bhatia

Narrator: Faraz Khan

Unabridged: 8 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/28/2022


Synopsis

'This book took me right back to my formative years. It was as if I was back there on the sets, watching Ramu with his magic wand and a band of outsiders. A lot of nostalgia and a whole lot of perspective' - ANURAG KASHYAP'An enchanting and detailed look at the making of one of the finest movies of Indian cinema. A must-read for all fans of Satya' - VISHAL BHARDWAJ'A passionate and riveting making-of chronicle of the film that paved the way for so many of us. A must for every Satya lover and student of cinema' - SRIRAM RAGHAVANIn 1998, Satya opened to widespread critical acclaim. 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, gritty side of Mumbai, rarely shown in mainstream cinema until then.More than two decades later, it has become an iconic film. When it was released, the regular moviegoer would have been hard-pressed to recognise more than a couple of names in the film's credits. Today, it reads like an honour roll - Anurag Kashyap, Manoj Bajpayee, Vishal Bhardwaj, Saurabh Shukla.Speaking to the people who made Satya a landmark film, Uday Bhatia tells the incredible story of how it all came together, how it drew from the gangster and street film traditions, and why it went on to become a modern classic.

About Uday Bhatia

Uday Bhatia is a film critic with Mint Lounge in Delhi. He has previously worked with Time Out Delhi and The Sunday Guardian. His writing has appeared in The Caravan, GQ, The Indian Quarterly, The Indian Express and The Hindu Business Line. He is the winner of the 2019 Ramnath Goenka Award in the Arts, Culture and Entertainment category.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dalia on October 24, 2021

3.5 Bollywood is something I'm not a die-hard fan of but yet I'm always intrigued to know more about the actors and actresses and something other than the children of filmic lineages sounds appealing to me enough. In 1998, Satya made an impact on the Hindi film industry with it's gritty approach. Ram......more

Goodreads review by Ishan on October 18, 2021

Bollywood over the years has seen remarkable shifts in the way it delivers the plot and also on the subjects it craft stories. For instance in late 90s it was all about the iconic Kumar Sanu , Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnic musical love tales while the 70s was more about movies around some social prej......more

Goodreads review by Umesh on November 05, 2021

Uday Bhatia's "behind-the-scenes" book on how the 1998 classic gangster film "Satya" was made focuses on the intricate details without losing the historical perspective. There are two long chapters on the Indian gangster film and the Bombay/Mumbai city film which meticulously document every film or......more

Goodreads review by Sahitya on March 26, 2022

This was more of a 3.5 I think. I don’t think I remember much about the movie Satya except the two most popular songs and how much I loved the acting of Manoj Bajpai and Shefali Shah. I was only a 10 year old and I probably shouldn’t have been watching a gangster film but I was a fan of RGV’s movies......more

Goodreads review by Vaibhav Srivastav on December 24, 2021

A great Pop-history book exploring gangster films in Indian cinema in general ranging from Kismat (1943) to movies made in early 2000s and focussing in particular on 'Satya' which is widely considered a watershed moment in Indian cinema. Full of 90s Nostalgia and interesting trivia as well as an exp......more