Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain
By Akshay Manwani.
Description
Nasir Husain by every appraisal as great a film-maker as Mehboob Khan or Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy or Guru Dutt, Yash Chopra or Manmohan Desai yet unforgivably under-appreciated. His career as writer director producer, spanning nearly five decades, has shaped commercial Hindi cinema as it exists today. In fact, he remains to this day one of Hindi cinema s most commercially successful figures. Akshay Manwani takes the first big step to restore that balance with Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain. Starting off as a writer with films like Shabnam, Anarkali, Munimji and Paying Gue...
ISBN(s)
9352640969, 9789352640966
