AVIJIT GHOSH’S BOOK ON BOLLYWOOD OF 1980s RELEASED | 9 April, 2023
By
KOMAL NAHTA
Well-known film journalist Avijit Ghosh’s book on the Hindi film industry of the 1980s is out. Tracing the many lives of ’80s’ Bombay Cinema and imaginatively titled When Ardh Satya Met Himmatwala, the book is insightful and has been written after a lot of research. Not surprising because even Ghosh’s articles on films and film people as also his obituaries of film celebrities are always excellently researched.
It’s no wonder then that veteran Mahesh Bhatt has summed up his feelings about the book thus: “It you love Hindi cinema, you will love this book.”
Just to give one an idea of what the book deals with, here’s what the back cover says:
“The 1980s. In Hindi cinema, it was the decade of the dark and powerful police drama Ardh Satya. It was the decade of the kitschy excess of the action comedy Himmatwala. It was a decade of opposites.
