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

Bombay Talkie
Directed by	James Ivory
Written by	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala James Ivory
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Starring	Shashi Kapoor Jennifer Kendal Aparna Sen Zia Mohyeddin Utpal Dutt
Cinematography	Subrata Mitra
Music by	Shankar–Jaikishan
Production company	Merchant Ivory Productions
Release date	20 November 1970 (1970-11-20)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	est. ₹110 lakh
Box office	est. ₹55 lakh

Plot

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

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

External links

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

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