Bombay Talkie
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| Directed by | James Ivory |
| Produced by | Ismail Merchant |
| Written by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala James Ivory |
| Starring | Shashi Kapoor Jennifer Kendal Aparna Sen Zia Mohyeddin Utpal Dutt |
| Music by | Shankar-Jaikishan |
| Cinematography | Subrata Mitra |
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112 minutes |
| Language | English |
Bombay Talkie is a 1970 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.
Plot
Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal) is a British author who is researching the Bollywood film industry. She falls in love and has an affair with Vikram (Shashi Kapoor), a famous Bollywood actor. The plot is complicated by the fact that Vikram is married, and his friend, Hari, is in love with Lucia.
Soundtrack
| Serial | Song Title | Singer(s) |
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| 1 | "Good Times and Bad Times" | Usha Uthup |
| 2 | "Hari Om Tatsat" | Usha Uthup |
| 3 | "Tum Mere Pyaar Ki" | Mohammed Rafi |
| 4 | "Type Writer" | Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar |
In popular culture
The film's song "Typewriter, Tip, Tip" (Music: Shankar-Jaikishan, Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri) and the opening credits theme (composed by Satyajit Ray) were used in the Wes Anderson film The Darjeeling Limited and on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show.
References
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- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Bombay Talkie at IMDb
- Merchant Ivory overview
- Blogpost on the film's title sequence
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