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‘Someone at this table has killed before, and someone at this table will kill again.’ Nikhil Kapoor, Bollywood’s biggest film director, made this shocking proclamation to his friends one night. Sameer Ali Khan, Bollywood’s badshah, seethed with rage. Nyra Oberoi, filmdom’s queen-in-waiting, turned her face away. Ishan Malhotra, producer extraordinaire, laughed out loud, while Kiki Fernandez, dress designer to the stars, looked afraid. Two nights later, both Nikhil and his wife, leading actress Mallika Kapoor, were found dead. It is up to Senior Inspector Hoshiyar Khan to solve the puzzle.
Amazon #1 Bestseller In Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror It's about a dangerous online game 'The Red Dragon' where teenagers are targeted and lured into, with a world title and Ten Million US Dollars, for which 29 tasks have to be completed with huge risk and physical tortures. Like a flying winged termite attracted to sources of light and finally burnt down, the teenagers also perish, However, as a universal law, someone out of the blue appears and it changes everything. An intriguing, suspense crime story with excellent narration, one just can't stop reading.
Veteran musician and sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan writes a deeply personal book about the lives and times of some of the greatest icons of Indian classical music. Having known some of these stalwarts personally, he recalls anecdotes and details about their individual musical styles, bringing them alive.
All humans long to be part of the tinsel world (cinema); and women desire more than men to become actresses before the camera. The presented book is a collection of all famous actresses of Bollywood who gave a new meaning to Indian cinema over the decades. You can find the names of Devika Rani Rocrich, Zubeida, Nimmi and other actresses of the yore who set the ball rolling in Mumbai. You can also find the names of Katrina Kaif, Karishma Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, the current Bollywood beauties, who are carrying forward the old legacy of Indian cinema. The details of actresses have been collected after painful research. The author, Renu Saran, has done a great job indeed! Our valued readers would be impressed by family details too. There are nearly 250 pages in this book. The total number of actresses featured in it is 179. It is a must-read for all Bollywood fans. General readers would also find it an excellent book for entertaining themselves.
Presents a study of the phenomenon that was Helen. Why did the refugee of French-Burmese parentage succeed so enormously in Bollywood?
The two sons of the sarod maestro, promising players themselves, look at their father's life with deference, humility and great love, and the constant balance they strive to achieve in separating the father from the guru. Comes with an exclusive CD of the first extended play recording of the maestro at the age of 18.
BollySwar is a decade-wise compendium of information about the music of Hindi films. Volume 6 chronicles the Hindi film music of the decade between 1981 and 1990. This volume catalogues more than 1000 films and 7000 songs, involving more than 1000 music directors, lyricists and singers. An overview of the decade highlights the key artists of the decade - music directors, lyricists and singers - and discusses the emerging trends in Hindi film music. A yearly review provides listings of the year's top artists and songs and describes the key milestones of the year in Hindi film music. The bulk of the book provides the song listing of every Hindi film album released in the decade. Basic informat...
This book is directed at all those who take to Bollywood as a modern-day El Dorado movie hopefuls, aspiring filmmakers, wannabe stars, serious investors in cinema and anybody remotely curious about the myth and magic of Hindi cinema. While deconstructing some of the myths, the book seeks to answer the most common and fundamental question: Is there a secret formula to a Bollywood hit? Through simple, easy to follow examples, the reader is introduced to ten basic principles, which eliminate all chances of failure and contribute to the making of a hit. These are listed as the Ten Mantras of Success . In essence, the book establishes that success in Bollywood is not a matter of chance or blind luck, but the reward for following a methodical and deliberated approach to cinema, backed by sound scientific reasoning and historically irrefutable facts.