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Bookmark this pageCinema Cinema (1979)
Director: Krishna Shah
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From Time Out Film Guide
Subtitled That's Entertainment - Indian Style, this is basically a compilation film, substituting Indian epics for MGM musicals. As such, despite the coy introductory comments by well-fed stars, the uncertain grasp of film history, and the interchangeability of most of the extracts, it is not without interest as a helping of 'Madras Curry' (the staple Bombay diet of lavish melodramas packed to inordinate length with interminable songs, dances and comic interludes). Unfortunately it also has semi-sociological pretensions, and assembles a dismal collection of stereotypes (supposedly watching the extracts in a sleazy cinema) in an attempt to demonstrate the screen/audience relationship. Their reactions are, quite literally, the pits.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Krishna Shah
Producer: Shahab Ahmed
Cast: Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra Aman, Zeenat Aman, Kim Merchant, Mustacq Merchant full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 138 mins
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