Tag: Film biography

Meena Kumari: Vinod Mehta

On By suroor alikhanIn Autobiography / Biography / Memoir, Media and the Arts: Film / Music / Photography / Painting / Crafts, Non-Fiction2 Comments

Published by HarperCollins India, 2013, 252 pages. For many years, I’ve enjoyed the writing of Vinod Mehta, the editor of the Indian newsmagazine Outlook, so I was looking forward to reading his biography of Meena Kumari, an iconic Indian actress who died in 1972. But the biography was written on a commission soon after her …

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Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death—Christopher Frayling

On By suroor alikhanIn Media and the Arts: Film / Music / Photography / Painting / Crafts, Non-Fiction2 Comments

Published by Faber & Faber, 2000, 592 pages. I hesitated about writing this review because you have to be a real fan of Sergio Leone films to enjoy this book, and I wasn’t sure how many of the readers of this blog are. But you know that I can be a bore about films I …

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