Download or read book When Aamir Met Anushka written by Alisha Chopra and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Train was moving. In the moonless night. She felt something suddenly. It was dark inside the train so it was not visible. A hand touched her... It wasn't her kid's. Bigger. An adult's. She pushed it back in shock with a light scream......His hands had reached deeper. It was damn dark. Nobody could see anything. But here was she, lying with her son while a man was massaging her passionately. She again tried a failed attempt to stop him. He didn't move. His hands had done with throat and neck. His oily hand had now slid inside her... She again tried to explain him. Took his face in her hands and pleaded. To stop. He knew it was half-hearted. Kept moving his hand inside. Compassion had turned into passion. Sympathy had turned into ardour. Caring had turned into craving. The lines cleaving gentle friendly touch and passionate rub were blurred... ...She looked back at her little son while slowly getting into man's blanket. He was sleeping peacefully... The bondages of modesty were shattered... It was the first sensual kiss for her in years. She pulled his head near her heart. It was the sign of surrender. Forgetting all ties, relations and even her son sleeping next to her on the other berth. It was the night of liberation! The night of celebration! The night of miracle... The man was master of seduction. A trained lover. He did that 18 times. With different women. Hotties called him man of dreams. But he was a man on mission. Will love defeat mission? Read this romantic thriller to find out!

Download or read book No Dream Is Too Big Memoirs of a Civil Servant written by Dr G G Saxena and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting journey of an IAS officer that unfolds between the pages of the book. Be it the difficult posting in Andaman and Nicobar or critical handling in Delhi Administration, the book is raw and relatable for readers everywhere. It takes you through the decision making process of a seasoned bureaucrat who formulated policies, advised political leaders, guided subordinates while serving the public at large.

Download or read book The Almost Impossible Bollywood Quiz written by Rohit Jayakaran and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Almost Impossible Bollywood Quiz by Rohit Jayakaran covers 50 quizzes featuring some of the most iconic Bollywood films. These Hindi films have entertained us by making us laugh and cry over the decades. Each quiz is based solely on the events that take place within the story of the film. If you would like to challenge your knowledge about a film, I recommend first attempting the quiz without the multiple choices. Since getting all the answers correct is almost impossible, each quiz is followed by a version that includes clues in the form of multiple choices. The Hindi films covered in this book are - Sholay, Mr. India, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Khiladi, Baazigar, Andaz Apna Apna, Hum Aapke Hain Koun, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Coolie No. 1, Rangeela, Yes Boss, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dil Chahta Hai, Lagaan, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Munna Bhai MBBS, Kal Ho Na Ho, Main Hoon Na, Dhoom, Swades, Bunty and Babli, Rang De Basanti, Om Shanti Om, Jab We Met, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, Race, Rock On, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Singh Is Kinng, 3 Idiots, Wake Up Sid, Dabangg, Band Baaja Baaraat, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Tanu Weds Manu, Desi Boyz, Ra.One, Barfi, Dabangg 2, Chennai Express, Queen, Special 26, Kai Po Che, Krrish 3, PK, Bareilly Ki Barfi and Luka Chuppi.Some of the biggest Indian Cinema actors starred in the films covered in this book. Some of them include, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Salman Khan, Kajol, Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif, John Abraham, Ranbir Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Ranveer Singh, Akshay Kumar, Rishi Kapoor, Kriti Sanon, Abhishek Bachchan, Sushant Singh Rajput, Anupam Kher, Ayushmann Kurrana, Anushka Sharma, Anil Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Saif Ali Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Naseeruddin Shah, Kangana Ranaut, Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor, Govinda, Rani Mukerji, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Raveena Tandon, Juhi Chawla, Urmila Matondkar, Sunil Dutt, Boman Irani, Arshad Warsi, Preity Zinta, Shahid Kapoor, R Madhavan, Sonakshi Sinha, Rajinikanth, Kirron Kher and Kartik Aaryan.Test your knowledge and see if you can ace this Bollywood Trivia challenge.

Download or read book Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema written by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, film scholars, anthropologists, and critics discuss star-making in the contemporary Hindi-language film industry in India, also known as “Bollywood.” Drawing on theories of stardom, globalization, transnationalism, gender, and new media studies, the chapters explore contemporary Hindi film celebrity. With the rise of social media and India’s increased engagement in the global economy, Hindi film stars are forging their identities not just through their on-screen images and magazine and advertising appearances, but also through an array of media platforms, product endorsements, setting fashion trends, and involvement in social causes. Focusing on some of the best-known Indian stars since the late 1990s, the book discusses the multiplying avenues for forging a star identity, the strategies industry outsiders adopt to become stars, and the contradictions and conflicts that such star-making produces. It addresses questions such as: What traits of contemporary stars have contributed most to longevity and success in the industry? How has filmmaking technology and practice altered the nature of stardom? How has the manufacture of celebrity altered with the recent appearance of commodity culture in India and the rise of a hyper-connected global economy? By doing so, it describes a distinct moment in India and in the world in which stars and stardom are drawn more closely than ever into the vital events of global culture. Hindi films and their stars are part of the national and global entertainment circuits that are bigger and more competitive than ever. As such, this is a timely book creates opportunities for examining stardom in other industries and provides fruitful cross-cultural perspectives on star identities today. "Grounded in rigorous scholarship as well as a palpable love of Hindi cinema, this collection of 19 essays on a dizzying array of contemporary Hindi film stars makes for an informative, thought-provoking, illuminating, and most of all, a joyful read. Pushing boundaries of not only global Star Studies but also film theory as a whole, this de-colonised and de-colonising volume is a must read for film scholars, students and cinephiles!" Dr. Sunny Singh, Senior Lecturer - Creative Writing and English Literature, Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture & Design, London Metropolitan University “A wide-ranging overview of Hindi cinema’s filmi firmament today, focussing on its most intriguing and brightest-burning stars. The variety of approaches to stardom and celebrity by both established and upcoming scholars reveals a web of interconnecting stories and concerns that provide fascinating new insights into the workings of today's Hindi film industry, while shining fresh light on contemporary India and the world we live in.” Professor Rosie Thomas, Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries, University of Westminster

Download or read book The Naked Mughals written by Vashi Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DID YOU KNOW THAT Babur was a drunkard! He loved a boy named Babri! Akbar raped children! Akbar raped his own daughter-in-law! Akbar had Harem of 5000 women! Jahangir blinded his son with his own hands! Shah Jahan did not spare even his own daughter! Aurangzeb beheaded his own brother and sent his head to his imprisoned father! Almost every Mughal king killed some of his sons and brothers! and much more.This book is an eye opener on Mughal history in India. Mughals have been glorified as great rulers in Indian history books despite being maniacs, incest-lovers, rapists and merciless invaders.The book is a compilation of all hidden facts. Straight from their authentic biographies. To make Indians realise, enough is enough.Do not glorify these filthy creatures in the name of preserving the secular fabric of India.Note: This is the latest edition of the book "Great Ruler of India" with different title and few additional chapters.

Download or read book Unsuitable Boy written by Karan Johar and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karan Johar is synonymous with success, panache, quick wit, and outspokenness, which sometimes inadvertently creates controversy and makes headlines. KJo, as he is popularly called, has been a much-loved Bollywood film director, producer, actor, and discoverer of new talent. With his flagship Dharma Production, he has constantly challenged the norms, written and rewritten rules, and set trends. But who is the man behind the icon that we all know? Baring all for the first time in his autobiography, An Unsuitable Boy, KJo reminisces about his childhood, the influence of his Sindhi mother and Punjabi father, obsession with Bollywood, foray into films, friendships with Aditya Chopra, SRK and Kajol, his love life, the AIB Roast, and much more. In his trademark frank style, he talks about the ever-changing face of Indian cinema, challenges and learnings, as well as friendships and rivalries in the industry. Honest, heart-warming and insightful, An Unsuitable Boy is both the story of the life of an exceptional film-maker at the peak of his powers and of an equally extraordinary human being who shows you how to survive and succeed in life.

Download or read book Khullam Khulla written by Rishi Kapoor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son of a famous father. Father of a famous son. I am the hyphen between them. Only, Rishi Kapoor was and is so much more. Few actors in Hindi cinema have had this sort of a career arc: from the gawky adolescent pining for his schoolteacher (Mera Naam Joker, 1970) to the naughty ninety-year-old (Kapoor & Sons, 2016), Rishi Kapoor has regaled audiences for close to fifty years. He won a National Award for his debut, became an overnight sensation with his first film as a leading man (Bobby, 1973), and carved a niche for himself with a string of romantic musical blockbusters in an era known for its angst-ridden films. He was the youth icon that is still the toast of the satellite TV circuit. The songs he lip-synced are the bread and butter of all radio stations even today. Then there was the second coming after a brief hiatus in the 1990s - as one of the finest actors in mainstream Hindi cinema with powerhouse performances in films like Do Dooni Chaar, D-Day, Agneepath and others.Characteristically candid, Rishi Kapoor brings Punjabi brio to the writing of Khullam Khulla. This is as up close and personal a biography as any fan could have hoped for. He writes about growing up in the shadow of a legendary father, skipping school to act in Mera Naam Joker, the workings of the musical hits of the era, an encounter with Dawood Ibrahim, his heroines (their working relationship, the gossip and the frisson that was sometimes real), his approach to his craft, his tryst with clinical depression, and more. A foreword by Ranbir Kapoor and a stirring afterword by Neetu Singh bookend the warmest, most dil se biography an Indian star has ever penned.

Download or read book Sanjay Dutt written by Yasser Usman and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IndiaÕs top Bollywood biographer tells the uncensored story of SanjayÕs roller-coaster life Ð from the tragic deaths of both his mother and his first wife to the time he smuggled heroin into the US and from the painful rehab he had to go through to his curious phone calls to gangster Chhota Shakeel.

Download or read book Mumbai Fables written by Gyan Prakash and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the catastrophic floods and terrorist attacks of recent years, Prakash reaches back to the sixteenth-century Portuguese conquest to reveal the stories behind Mumbai's historic journey. Examining Mumbai's role as a symbol of opportunity and reinvention, he looks at its nineteenth-century development under British rule and its twentieth-century emergence as a fabled city on the sea. Different layers of urban experience come to light as he recounts the narratives of the Nanavati murder trial and the rise and fall of the tabloid Blitz, and Mumbai's transformation from the red city of trade unions and communists into the saffron city of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena. Starry-eyed planners and elite visionaries, cynical leaders and violent politicians of the street, land sharks and underworld dons jostle with ordinary citizens and poor immigrants as the city copes with the dashed dreams of postcolonial urban life and lurches into the seductions of globalization. --

Download or read book Longmen s Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage written by Dong Wang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmen’s caves and the Buddhist statuary of Luoyang, was rediscovered in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on original research and archival sources in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Swedish, as well as extensive fieldwork, Dong Wang traces the ties between cultural heritage and modernity, detailing how this historical monument has been understood from antiquity to the present. She highlights the manifold traffic and expanded contact between China and other countries as these nations were reorienting themselves in order to adapt their own cultural traditions to newly industrialized and industrializing societies. Unknown to much of the world, Longmen and its mesmerizing modern history takes readers to the heartland of China, known as “Chinese Babylon” a century ago. With remarkable depth and breadth, this book unravels both a bygone and a continuing human pursuit of artefacts—shared, spiritual, modern, and above all beautiful that have linked so many lives, Chinese and foreign.

Download or read book I Too Had a Love Story written by Ravinder Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 10th anniversary edition of I Too had a Love Story brings to life one of the decade's most-loved romance novels with gorgeous illustrations in a brand new design. With a personal note from the author, this book is a collector's edition. It will also make for a fabulous gift. Do love stories ever die? . . . How would you react when a beautiful person comes into your life, and then goes away from you . . . forever? Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. I Too Had a Love Story is one such saga. It is the tender and heartfelt tale of Ravin and Khushi--two people who found each other on a matrimonial site and fell in love . . . until life put their love to the ultimate test. Romantic, emotional and sincere, this heartbreaking true life story has already touched a million hearts. This bestselling novel is a must-read for anyone who believes in the magic of love . . .

Download or read book Incarnations written by Sunil Khilnani and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans—some famous, some unjustly forgotten—bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.

Download or read book 50 Not Out written by Harimohan Paruvu and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning from the game of cricket prepares us, in ways no university can, for the bigger game of life. Cricket is a game of management, teamwork, strategy and leadership. When these are applied right, one wins; else, one loses.But whatever the outcome – pain or joy – one learns from every match! In 50 Not Out! author Harimohan Paruvu captures fifty key lessons from cricket that are essential for all-round growth and good living. Honesty, courage, resilience, commitment, discipline – these are just a few of the qualities illustrated through the game. The book also explains principles behind such familiar phrases as ‘play with a straight bat’, ‘catches win matches’ or ‘team comes first’ and how these help us adapt to every situation in life. From students to CEOs, administrators to sportsmen, people from all walks of life will find inspiration in 50 Not Out! to be the very best they can be. HARIMOHAN PARUVU is an accomplished cricketer who has played for Hyderabad in the 1985-87 Ranji Trophy matches. A civil engineer and MBA, he worked in the corporate sector for a decade before giving it up to write full-time. He is the author of India’s first cricket novel The Men Within: A Cricketing Tale and the romance If you love someone. Harimohan also blogs, teaches, leads workshops and coaches executives.

Download or read book Sexuality Obscenity and Community written by C. Gupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through analysis of an impressive array of 'low' and 'high' Hindu literatures, particularly pamphlets, tracts, newspapers, and archival data, Gupta explores the emerging discourse of gender and sexuality, which was essential to the development of notions of Hindu communitality and nationalism in the colonial period. The book offers an exceptionally nuanced account of Hindi gender politics.

Download or read book Don t Call It Bollywood written by Margaret E. Redlich and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think "Bollywood" is just flashy dance sequences and unbelievable plots? Think again Explore the rich history and artistic traditions of Hindi film in this engaging book, which intersperses stories from the author's path to dedicated fandom with analysis of the films and their context. If your only exposure to Hindi films is action sequences that defy the laws of physics and dance sequences full of colorful, swirling silk, this book will open your eyes to a rich and rewarding art form. If you're already a fan, it will enrich your appreciation of your favorite film moments by placing them in their larger context.

Download or read book The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic written by Anna M. M. Vetticad and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Bollywood films.

Download or read book Humans of Bombay written by Karishma Mehta and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "About the book In 2014 Karishma Mehta started Humans of Bombay to capture the untold stories of the millions of people living in the maximum city. This book entails a handpicked collection of some of the best stories on the Humans of Bombay Facebook blog as well as several unseen stories. Funny insightful quirky and intimate these stories are sure to make your heart melt."--Provided by publisher.