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Article: "Taking on the tone of a Bombay talkie": the function of Bombay cinema in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.(Salman Rushdie: A Special Cluster)(Critical essay)
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- October 1, 2007
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In recent years, Bollywood movies, produced in Bombay and hugely popular in India, have enjoyed a surge of popularity worldwide.(1) Praised for their lavish sets and spectacular song and dance sequences, Bombay films, and the conventions of this cinematic genre, are becoming increasingly mainstream. Until recently, however, the conventions of Bombay cinema were largely ridiculed, satirized or dismissed by Indian and Western critics as lacking realism. Rachel Dwyer and Divia Patel point out that the Indian term "filmi," which means belonging to or associated with film, "is seen as derogatory, suggesting something cheap and trashy" (30). Salman Rushdie's observations about ...