A Gandhian affair
Subtitle: India's curious portrayal of love in cinema
By: Sanjay Suri
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Noida
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9789353570804; 9789353570811
Subjects: Influence; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures; Sex; Social aspects; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Political aspects
Description: "Sex has always dominated Hindi cinema - but in a curious hide-and-seek sort of way. Sanjay Suri argues that Hindi cinema was the unlikely offspring of the Father of the Nation in this respect - a product of his celibacy and austerity. Gandhi's heoric retreat from wealth and sexuality was written into the cinema and then elaborately filmed shot by shot. Just about every film brings up these two themes for the hero to then rise above." --
Notes: Includes index.

Includes and index
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Special Appearance: Mahatma Gandhi; title: Fast Forward; title: Three Films and a Song; title: More Black Than White; title: Singing the Unspeakable; title: Seeing Double; title: Angry Gandhi; title: Exit Mahatma, Enter Manmohan