Mihir Bose Biography

Acknowledgements

Prologue: With Pamela in Search of Bollywood

Part I: In Step with the World

1. The Creators

2. The Mighty Banyan Tree

3. Growing Under the Banyan Tree

Part II: When Bollywood was like Hollywood: The Studio Era

4. Mavericks, Eccentrics, Bigamists

5. The Road to Bombay via Munich and London

6. Making a Nation through Films

7. The Children of Rai

8. Blondes and Brunettes: Bollywood's White Women

Part III: Minting Film Gold in Bombay

9. Searching for the Right Masala

10. The Great Indian Showman

11. Bollywood's Classic Era

12. Asif's Godot Finally Arrives

Part IV: A Laugh, a Song and a Tear

13. The Explosion of the Bombay Film Song

14. Laughter and Tears

Part V: Anger and After

15. A Shy Man and his Use of Anger

16. The Great Indian Curry Western

17. Changes in a Time of Darkness

18. The Final Frontier

19. Afterword

Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index