Hero Vol. 2 - Amitabh Bachchan to The Khans & Beyond

Author: Ashok RajPublisher: Hay HouseYear: 2010Language: EnglishPages: 417ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-89988-33-6 DescriptionA comprehensive, reel-life chronicle of Hindi film heroes and a kaleidoscopic view into the fascinating world of Hindi cinema.While Volume 1 covered the period from the silent era to the legendary Dilip Kumar, this volume depicts the evolution of the Hindi film hero from Amitabh Bachchan to the present. The author contends that the development of Hindi cinema as a powerful expression of popular culture has been largely centred round the frontal figure of the hero. Beginning with the transition from Dilip Kumar to Amitabh Bachchan, Ashok Raj focuses upon the latter, whom he considers a colossus in Bollywood. He projects Bachchan as the dominant hero (mainly in the form of the angry young man) in the late 1970s and 1980s, along with the political and socio-economic scenario then prevailing that lent authenticity to such an image. Bachchan’s foray into a variety of g