Avijit Ghosh

About: Avijit Ghosh works as a senior editor for The Times of India in New Delhi. Born in Agartala, he grew up in the small towns of Arrah and Ranchi. He graduated in history from St Xavier’s College, Ranchi and earned his Master’s and MPhil degrees from JNU, New Delhi. A journalist for more than twenty-five years, he has written extensively on Hindi cinema and sports. He has also briefly been a film critic for The Telegraph and The Times of India. His previous works include Bandicoots in the Moonlight, a bildungsroman set in 1970s small-town Bihar, and Cinema Bhojpuri, which won the Special Mention for Best Writing on Cinema in the 2010 National Film Awards. His third book, 40 Retakes: Bollywood Classics You May Have Missed, revisits a bunch of movies that have fallen through the cracks of our memory. He has also written a monograph on film director Phani Majumdar for National Film Archive of India (NFAI).

BOOK

Name: When Ardhasatya Met Himmatwala

Description:

If you’re a movie buff and enjoy not just watching films but talking, reading and sharing interesting anecdotes about them, there’s just the right session planned for you. Get an opportunity to meet and have a conversation with Avijit Gosh, the author of When Ardhasatya Met Himmatwala. A book that takes you on a journey of the 80s Hindi cinema, a decade that saw the biggest transition in Showbizz. In Hindi cinema, it was the time of the dark and powerful police drama Ardh Satya as well as of the kitschy excess of the action comedy Himmatwala. It was a decade of opposites. 80s cinema probably acted as a hyphen between the past and the future of Indian films.

In this thoroughly researched and entertaining book, Avijit Ghosh, author of the acclaimed bestsellers Cinema Bhojpuri and 40 Retakes, narrates the fascinating story of perhaps the most eventful, disruptive and transformative decade of Hindi cinema.