A five-part series
2: Waiting for Hero
India boasts the most productive and buoyant film Industry in the world. Stars are mobbed in the streets and adulated even more than their counterparts in the Hollywood of the 1930s.
John Keay reflects on the blockbuster song-and-dance movies of the Indian mainstream and on an art-cinema tradition that is growing In confidence.
Contributors include SATYAJIT RAY
SHASHI KAPOOR , MRINAL SEN APARNA SEN, SHY AM BENEGAL Producer DAVID PERRY