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A Novel

By Tharoor, Shashi

Publishers Summary:
Ashok Banjara is one of India's mega-movie stars, a man of great ambition and dubious morals. With irrepressible charm and a genius for satire, Tharoor portrays the Indian film world in all its Hollywoodesque glitz and glamor as a metaphor for Indian society. Onscreen fiction and offscreen reality intertwine to weave a tapestry of power and privilege, seduction and betrayal, and politics and intrigue, that is at once colorful, entertaining, and deadly serious. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year.

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ISBN
978-1-55970-181-5
Publisher
Arcade Publishing


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Reviewed on May 15, 1992

After his highly regarded debut with The Great Indian Novel ( LJ 3/1/90), London-born, New York-resident Tharoor takes on the Bombay film industry, or "Bellywood,'' in this tale of a minor government official's son who rises from bit parts to Indian superstardom, then moves on to meet his downfall in the similar if more dangerous game of politics. A...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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