Bombay Talkie

1970 film

20 November 1970 (1970-11-20)

Running time

112 minutesLanguageEnglishBudgetest. ₹110 lakhBox officeest. ₹55 lakh

Bombay Talkie is a 1970 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.

Plot

Lucia Lane is a British author who is researching the Bollywood film industry. She falls in love and has an affair with Vikram, a famous Bollywood actor. The plot is complicated by the fact that Vikram is married, and his friend, Hari, is in love with Lucia.

Cast

Shashi Kapoor as Vikram
Jennifer Kendal as Lucia
Zia Mohyeddin as Hari
Aparna Sen as Mala
Utpal Dutt as Bose
Florence Ezekiel (Nadira) as Anjana Devi
Pinchoo Kapoor as Swamiji
Helen as Heroine in Gold
Usha Iyer as Cabaret Singer
Ruby Myers as Gopal Ma
Prayag Raj as Director
Jalal Agha as Young Man
Anwar Ali as Young Man
Mohan Nadkarni as Young Man
Sukhdev as Man at Bar^[1]

Soundtrack

Serial	Song title	Singer(s)
1	"Good Times and Bad Times"	Usha Uthup
2	"Hari Om Tatsat"	Usha Uthup
3	"Tum Mere Pyaar Ki"	Mohammed Rafi
4	"Type Writer"	Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle

Trivia

The film's song "Typewriter, Tip, Tip" (Music: Shankar–Jaikishan, Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri) and the opening credits theme were used in the Wes Anderson film The Darjeeling Limited and on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show.

Amitabh Bachchan played a minuscule role in the film. The actor confessed in an interview that Shashi Kapoor chided him for doing the role as he foresaw greater potential in Bachchan.^[2]

References

^ "Bombay Talkie". IMDb. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ "The Enigmatic Kapoor". Daily Pioneer.

External links

Bombay Talkie at IMDb
Merchant Ivory overview
Blogpost on the film's title sequence

Merchant Ivory Productions

The Householder (1963)
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
The Guru (1969)
The Night of Counting the Years (1969)
Bombay Talkie (1970)
Savages (1972)
The Wild Party (1975)
Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
Roseland (1977)
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)
The Five Forty-Eight (1978)
The Europeans (1979)
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
Quartet (1981)
The Courtesans of Bombay (1983)
Heat and Dust (1983)
The Bostonians (1984)
A Room with a View (1985)
Maurice (1987)
The Deceivers (1988)
The Perfect Murder (1988)
Slaves of New York (1989)
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
Howards End (1992)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
In Custody (1994)
Feast of July (1995)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
The Proprietor (1996)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Side Streets (1998)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
Cotton Mary (1999)
The Golden Bowl (2000)
The Mystic Masseur (2001)
Le Divorce (2003)
Heights (2005)
The White Countess (2005)
Before the Rains (2008)
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)

v t e Films directed by James Ivory
The Householder (1963) The Delhi Way (1964) Shakespeare Wallah (1965) The Guru (1969) Bombay Talkie (1970) Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (1972) Savages (1972) Autobiography of a Princess (1975) The Wild Party (1975) Roseland (1977) Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978) The Five Forty-Eight (1978) The Europeans (1979) Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) Quartet (1981) Heat and Dust (1983) The Bostonians (1984) A Room with a View (1985) Maurice (1987) Slaves of New York (1989) Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) Howards End (1992) The Remains of the Day (1993) Jefferson in Paris (1995) Lumière and Company (1995) Surviving Picasso (1996) A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998) The Golden Bowl (2000) Le Divorce (2003) The White Countess (2005) The City of Your Final Destination (2009)

Films directed by James Ivory