Sentimental Songs, Melodrama and Filmic Narrative in Bollywood’s Golden Age (1951–1963)

Sentimental Songs, Melodrama and Filmic Narrative in Bollywood’s Golden Age (1951–1963)The way in which the spectator responds to the song and how narrative, lyrics, music, mise en scnes, all come together to accentuate sentimentality and melodrama in the Golden Age of Bollywood cinema (19511963) is the books key thematic concern.

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