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Project type: Vordiplom
A production of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
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Archiv Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
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Heisse Tränen in Bombay

Authors:
  • Philipp Schäfer
  • Jan Martin Scharf
Subtitle: Hinter den Kulissen der indischen Filmindustrie
Year: 1999
Length: 00:52:00
Categories: Film / TV / Video, documentary
Project type: Vordiplom
The Indian cinema is virtually unknown in the Western hemisphere, although it is the largest film factory in the world. Reports on a unique movie madness and an unseen fascinaton for sentimental kitsch led us, two young film makers, to Bombay, the centre of Indian film. What makes people spend a day`s income to escape into this dream world, that is a three-hour mixture of expressive feelings, music and dance? We get in touch with India`s most famous dream merchants and its stars. Great Indian actors and directors like Dev Anand, known as Indias “only living legend”, Sha Rukh Khan, adored as king of Bollywood and M. F. Hussain, India’s Picasso, provide an insight into the “holy rules of cinema”. We attend the stars doing their work, watch them direct, act and dance in order to satisfy this deep cultural need of Indian society - the need to dream, the need to feel -, the “Hot Tears in Bombay”.
Collaboration:
Photography: Jan Martin Scharf
Editing: Philipp Schäfer, Jan Martin Scharf
Authors:
  • Philipp Schäfer
  • Jan Martin Scharf
A production of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
Source:
Archiv Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Copyright: KHM / Autoren
Kontakt: archiv@khm.de
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