Meet the people who live and breathe Bollywood
Apr 27, 2016 08:42 PM IST
A trivia-filled look at the people who track the backstory of Bollywood – the films, songs, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and the colourful characters.
It’s sometime in the late ’80s. A whole nation is tuning in to Doordarshan to catch the Sunday evening Hindi film, Aradhana, a tale of a secret romance, a woman’s sacrifice and a son’s reunion with his mother. All threads of the story tie into a neat little bow at the end. For one young boy in Kolkata, however, one question remains: What is that book Sharmila Tagore is reading on the Darjeeling-bound toy train as Rajesh Khanna sings Mere sapno ki rani from the open jeep alongside? His mother has told him it’s a novel by Alistair MacLean, but she’s not sure which. A quest is born.
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