The following are a select list of Books on Cinema Published in India. Please click on Details to see the complete table of contents and excerpts from the jacket/preface of the book. We can supply you any title published in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Please email us at vedams@vedamsbooks.com your requirements for books from India

Aamir Khan : Actor with a Difference/Lata Khubchandani. New Delhi, Rupa & Co., 2003, 64 p., photographs, $11. ISBN 81-291-0046-0.   Details No. 30688

AB : The Legend : A Photographer's Tribute/Pradeep Chandra. New Delhi, Rupa, 2006, 208 p., photographs, $65. ISBN 81-291-0881-X. Details No. 44192

The Absence Trilogy : And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (Ekdin Pratidin); The Case is Closed (Kharij); Suddenly, One Day, (Ekdin Achanak)/Mrinal Sen. Calcutta, Seagull, 1999. 203 p., $17. ISBN 81-7046-095-6. Details No. 22004

The Act of Life : Amrish Puri : an Autobiography with Jyoti Sabharwal. New Delhi, Stellar Publishers, 2006, xxvii, 408 p., $40. ISBN 81 902247 4 3. Details No. 45588

Another Cinema for Another Society/Gaston Roberge. Reprint. Calcutta, Seagull, 2005, viii, 158 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-7046-056-5.  Details No. 43035

The Art and Science of Cinema/Anwar Huda. New Delhi, Atlantic, 2004, x, 270 p., tables, $28. ISBN 81-269-0348-1.  Details No. 36525

Artistes and Their Films of Modern Hindi Cinema (Cultural and Socio-Political Impact on Society 1931-91)/Ram Awatar Agnihotri. New Delhi, Commonwealth, 1992, 3 vols., 1024 p., $72 (set). ISBN 81-7169-180-3. Details No. 22015

Autobiography of an Actor : Sivaji Ganesan (October 1928-July 2001)/edited by T.S. Narayana Swamy. English version by Sabita Radhakrishna. Chennai, Sivaji Prabhu Charities Trust, 2007, 250 p., photographs, $40 (pbk). Details No. 55880

Awara/Gayatri Chatterjee. Reprint. New Delhi, Penguin, 2003, xxv, 136 p., 115 photographs, $15 (pbk). ISBN 0-14-302980-0. Details No. 33092

Bachchanalia : The Films and Memorabilia of Amitabh Bachchan/Bhawana Somaaya. Mumbai, OSIAN's--Connoisseurs of Art Pvt. Ltd., 2009, 310 p., 650 colour photos, ISBN 81-8174-027-0.   Details No. 60392

Behind the Glitz : Exploring an Enigma Called Indian Film Industry/Someswar Bhowmik. Kolkata, Thema, 2008, xii, 116 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-86017-61-6.  Details No. 57060

Being & Becoming : The Cinemas of Asia/edited by Aruna Vasudev, Latika Padgaonkar and Rashmi Doraiswamy. New Delhi, Macmillan, 2002, xii, 580 p., photographs, $43. ISBN 0333-93820-8. Details No. 28401

Beyond the Stars : The Memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein/edited by Richard Taylor. Translated by William Powell. Calcutta, Seagull, 1995, xxi, 889 p., $66. ISBN 81-7046-057-3. Details No. 10245

Beyond the World of Apu : The Films of Satyajit Ray/John W. Hood. Foreword by Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Reprint. New Delhi, Orient Longman Pvt. Ltd., 2008, xii, 476 p., $31 (pbk). ISBN 81-250-3510-9.  Details No. 56421

Bollywood : Behind the Scenes, Beyond the Stars/text by Nicholas R Bradley. Photos by Robert James Elliott. Singapore, Marshall Cavendish, 2006, 144 p., $65. ISBN 981-261-211-4.  Details No. 50464

Bollywood : A History/Mihir Bose. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2007, 382 p., ills, $30. ISBN 81-7436-508-7.  Details No. 50448

Bollywood : Sociology Goes to the Movies/Rajinder Kumar Dudrah. New Delhi, Sage Pub., 2006, 211 p., illus., $33. ISBN 81-7829-610-1.  Details No. 45031

Bollyworld : Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens/edited by Raminder Kaur and Ajay J. Sinha. New Delhi, Sage, 2005, 343 p., illus., $33. ISBN 81-7829-450-8.  Details No. 40913 

Bombay Cinema : An Archive of the City/Ranjani Mazumdar. Ranikhet, Permanent Black Pub., 2007, xxxviii, 258 p., illus., $35. ISBN 81-7824-205-2.  Details No. 52342

Cinema : Images and Issues/Bhawana Somaaya. New Delhi, Rupa & Co., 2004, viii, 389 p., photographs, $33. ISBN 81-291-0370-2. Details No. 34739

Cinema At the End of Empire : A Politics of Transition in Britain and India/Priya Jaikumar. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2006, xiv, 320 p., illus., $33 (pbk). ISBN 81-7046-316-5.  Details No. 50370

Cinema of Interruptions : Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema/Lalitha Gopalan. New Delhi, OUP, 2003, viii, 218 p., $28. ISBN 019-566352-7.  Details No. 30732

The Cinemas of India : 1896-2000/Yves Thoraval. Reprint. First Published in 2000. New Delhi, Macmillan, 2007, xx, 508 p., 32 black and white photographs, ISBN 0333-93410-5.  Details No. 57528

The Cinematic Imagination : Indian Popular Films as Social History/Jyotika Virdi. Delhi, Permanent Black, 2004, xvi, 258 p., $33. ISBN 81-7824-098-x.  Details No. 36201

Collected Plays, Vol. I: Tughlaq, Hayavadana, Bali: The Sacrifice, Naga-Mandala (Play with a Cobra)/Girish Karnad. Reprint. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2006, xxxvi, 319 p., $30 (Vol. I). ISBN 0-19-567310-7.  Details No. 43493

Communication Cinema Development: From Morosity to Hope/Gaston Roberge. New Delhi, Manohar, 1998, 216 p., $25. ISBN: 81-7304-149-0. Details No. 20672

Conscience of the Race : India's Offbeat Cinema/Bibekananda Ray. New Delhi, Publications Division, 2005, xii, 276 p., $30. ISBN 81-230-1298-5.  Details No. 46319

Cotton Mary/Ismail Merchant. New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2000, xiv, 138 p., $17. ISBN 0-14-029575-5. Details No. 21554

Cut-Outs, Caste and Cine Stars : The World of Tamil Politics/Vaasanthi. New Delhi, Penguin, 2006, xxiv, 268 p., $25. ISBN 06-7099-900-8. Details No. 45149

Cyclopaedia of Indian Cinema/Sushil Arora. New Delhi, Anmol, 2004, 2 Vols., xxxv, 694 p., tables, 28 plates, $193 (set). ISBN 81-261-1933-0.  Details No. 37213

Enchantment of the Mind : Manmohan Desai's Films/Connie Haham. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2006, xx, 204 p., plates, $22. ISBN 81-7436-431-5.  Details No. 44317

Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema/edited by Gulzar, Govind Nihalani and Saibal Chatterjee. New Delhi, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2003, xx, 659 p., colour and black & white photographs, $105. ISBN 81-7991-066-0.  Details No. 31144

The Encyclopedia of Oscar Achievers/Allen Muir. New Delhi, Dominant Pub., 2003, 8 vols., vii, 2564 p., $468 (set). ISBN 81-7888-121-7. Details No. 35323

The Eternal Saga of Love : Devdas/edited and compiled by Rahul Singhal. Delhi, Pentagon Paperbacks, 2002, 144 p., photographs, $17 (pbk). ISBN 81-86830-63-4. [Great Sagas : Unforgettable Celluloid Series –I] Details No. 28575

Filming the Gods : Religion and Indian Cinema/Rachel Dwyer. New Delhi, Routledge, 2007, x, 198 p., figs., $20 (pbk). ISBN 0-415-31425-9.  Details No. 50343

Films, Literature and Culture : Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy/edited by Jasbir Jain. New Delhi, Rawat, 2007, x, 258 p., $33. ISBN 81-316-0009-2.  Details No. 53488

Films and Feminism : Essays in Indian Cinema/edited by Jasbir Jain and Sudha Rai. New Delhi, Rawat Pub., 2002, 280 p., $30. ISBN 81-7033-713-5. Details No. 27597

The Films of Buddhadeb Dasgupta/John W. Hood. New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2005, xiv, 224 p.,  $15 (pbk). ISBN 81-250-2802-1.  Details No. 39997

Fine Art of Acting (Film, Television, Drama and Real Life)/Jyoti Sarup. Delhi, Jaico, 2002, x, 110 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-7224-979-9. Details No. 23506

Fingerprinting Popular Culture : The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema/edited by Vinay Lal and Ashis Nandy. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2006, xxvii, 197 p., $28. ISBN 0-19-567918-0.  Details No. 45020

14 Pearls of Tamil Film Hits (Staff Notations)/Isaipriean. Madurai, Isai Alayam, 2006, xiv, 86 p., $11 (pbk). Details No. 45612

Frames of Fame : A Visual Voyage Through Bollywood 1913 - 2004/edited by Shahab Ahmed. Mumbai, Oasis Enterprises, 2005, 259 p., photographs, $160. ISBN 81-902023-0-8.  Details No. 40836

Gender Relations and Cultural Ideology in Indian Cinema : A Study of Select Adaptations of Literary Texts/Indubala Singh. New Delhi, Deep and Deep, 2007, xiv, 236 p., $48. ISBN 81-7629-989-8. Details No. 49865

Great Masters of Indian Cinema : The Dadasaheb Phalke Award Winners/D.P. Mishra. New Delhi, Publications Division, 2006, xvi, 146 p., photographs, $20. ISBN 81-230-1361-2. Details No. 47241

Guru Dutt : A Life in Cinema/Nasreen Munni Kabir. Reprint. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005, xiv, 224 p., photographs, $25 (pbk). ISBN 019-567233-X.  Details No. 38845

Hall of Fame Shah Rukh Khan/Biswadeep Ghosh. Mumbai, Magna Pub., 2004, 182 p., photographs, $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-7809-237-9.  Details No. 44984

Helen : The Life and Times of an H-Bomb/Jerry Pinto. New Delhi, Penguin, 2006, vi, 256 p., photographs, $15 (pbk). ISBN 0-14303-124-4.  Details No. 44758

Hema Malini : The Authorized Biography/Bhawana Somaaya. New Delhi, Roli, 2007, xxii, 218 p., photographs, $28. ISBN 81-7436-467-6. Details No. 49919

Hindi Action Cinema : Industries, Narratives, Bodies/Valentina Vitali. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2008, xxxiv, 266 p., photographs, $35. ISBN 0-19-569244-6.  Details No. 55677

Hindi Film Song : Music Beyond Boundaries/Ashok Da Ranade. New Delhi, Promilla and Co., 2006, 448 p., photos, $50. ISBN 81-85002-69-X.  Details No. 47892

A Historical Mela : The ABC of India The Art, Book & Cinema: Auctions of Indian Modern & Contemporary Art; Rare Books on Indian Architectural Heritage & Fine Arts; Vintage Posters, Photographs, Song-Synopsis Booklets, Lobby & Show Cards of Hindi Cinema, 1930-70s/curated by Neville Tuli. Mumbai, Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art Private Limited, 2002, 320 p., colour & B/W photographs, $105 (pbk). ISBN 81-901247-2-2.   Details No. 30335

The History of Cinema for Beginners/Jarek Kupsc. New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2003, xii, 381 p., ills., $15 (pbk). ISBN 81-250-2470-0.  Details No. 30567

Hollywood : The 100 Greatest Films/Derek O'Brien. New Delhi, Penguin, 2004, x, 342 p., tables, $15 (pbk). ISBN 0-14-303137-6. Details No. 39502

Hours in the Dark : Essays on Cinema/T.G. Vaidyanathan. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996, 289 p., $35. ISBN 0-19-563764-X. Details No. 11783

108 Cine Ragams : Carnatic Music in Tamil Films (CD-Rom Inside)/S.  Parthasarathy. Chennai, Amritha Parthasarathy, 2005, x, 236 p., $25 (pbk). Details No. 45613  

I, Durga Khote : An Autobiography/translated from Marathi by Shanta Gokhale. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2006, xxx, 194 p., ills., $20. ISBN 0-19-567475-8.  Details No. 43939

In the Name of the Secular : Contemporary Cultural Activism in India/Rustom Bharucha. 1998, xi, 197 p., $31. Details No. 13094

India Through the Western Lens : Creating National Images in Film/Ananda Mitra. 1999, 254 p., $33. ISBN 81-7036-726-3. Details No. 14163

Indian Cinema : The Bollywood Saga/Dinesh Raheja and Jitendra Kothari. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2004, 156 p., $83. ISBN 81-7436-285-1.  Details No. 35712

India's Digital Revolution: Impact on Film and Television Sectors. New Delhi, ASSOCHAM, 2008, 28 p., $28 (pbk). Details No. 54951

The Kapoors : The First Family of Indian Cinema/Madhu Jain. New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2005, xxvi, 372 p., photographs, $35. ISBN 06700-58-378.  Details No. 43538

Kishore Kumar : Method in Madness/Derek Bose. New Delhi, Rupa, 2004, 128 p., $28. ISBN 81-291-526-8. Details No. 37541  

The Last Days of Sardar Patel and The Mime Players : Two Screen Plays/Vijay Tendulkar. New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2001, xi, 251 p., $15. ISBN 81-7824-018-1. Details No. 22969                                                                                                   

Lights Camera Masala : Making Movies in Mumbai/Sheena Sippy. Mumbai, India Book House, 2006, 247 p, photographs, $85. ISBN 81-7508-441-3. Details No. 46209

Literary Terms in Drama, Theatre and Cinema/A.J. Sebastian and N.D.R. Chandra. Delhi, Authorspress, 2002, iv, 284 p., $33. ISBN 81-7273-098-5  Details No. 27973                                                                                                                          

Madhubala : Masti and Magic/Alpana Chowdhury. New Delhi, Rupa, 2003, 72 p., $11. ISBN 81-291-0150-5. Details No. 33405

The Making of Om Shanti Om : A Farah Khan Film/Mushtaq Shiekh. New Delhi, Om Books International, 2008, 192 p., $40 (pbk). ISBN 81-87108-36-8.  Details No. 55372

Memories Come Alive : An Autobiography (With CD)/Manna Dey. Translated from the Bengali by Sarbani Putatunda. New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2007, xiv, 416 p., $25 (pbk). ISBN 0-14310-193-5.  Details No. 50573

Mehmood : A Man of Many Moods/Hanif Zaveri. New Delhi, Popular Prakashan, 2006, $15. ISBN 81-7991-213-2.  Details No. 45205

Montage : Life, Politics, Cinema/Mrinal Sen. Calcutta, Seagull, 2002, 372 p., $55. ISBN 81-7046-164-2. Details No. 27531

Mother India/Gayatri Chatterjee. New Delhi, Penguin, 2002, 87 p., photographs, $14 (pbk). ISBN 014302904-5. Details No. 28400 

Mr and Mrs Dutt : Memories of Our Parents/Namrata Dutt Kumar and Priya Dutt. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2007, 200 p., photographs, $45. ISBN 81-7436-455-5.  Details No. 53059

My Passage from India : A Filmmaker’s Journey from Bombay to Hollywood and Beyond/Ismail Merchant. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2002, x, 149 p., photographs, $40. ISBN 81-7436-252-5.  Details No. 43158

My Years with Boss : At Gemini Studios/Ashokamitran. New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2002, viii, 47 p., plates, $11. ISBN 81-250-2087-X. Details No. 27203

The Name is Rajinikanth/Gayathri Sreekanth. New Delhi, Om Books International, 2008, 376 p., colour photographs, $28. ISBN 81-87108-44-3.  Details No. 55737

Nehru's Hero Dilip Kumar in the Life of India/Lord Meghnad Desai. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2004, xii, 140 p., $17. ISBN 81-7436-311-4.  Details No. 35105

One Yesterday/edited by Saif Hyder Hasan. New Delhi, Rupa and Co., 2004, x, 181 p., $28. ISBN 81-291-0521-7.  Details No. 37746

Our Films : Their Films/Satyajit Ray. Reprint. New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2001, viii, 219 p., $11. ISBN 81-250-1565-5. Details No. 23043

Parama and Other Outsiders : The Cinema of Aparna Sen/Shoma A. Chatterji. Calcutta, Parumita Pub., 2002, xiv, 318 p., photographs, $22 (pbk). ISBN 81-87867-03-5. Details No. 29525

Parineeta/Saratchandra Chattopadhyay. Translated from the Bengali by Malobika Chaudhuri. New Delhi, Penguin, 2005, xi, 91 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 014-303356-5. Details No. 40997

The Politics of India's Conventional Cinema : Imaging a Universe, Subverting a Multiverse/Fareed Kazmi. 1999, 252 p., $34. ISBN 81-7036-774-3. Details No. 14290

Portrait of a Director : Satyajit Ray/Marie Seton. Reprint. New Delhi, Penguin, 2003, xxxii, 376 p., photographs, $28 (pbk). ISBN 014-302972-X.   Details No. 31647

The Prithviwallahs/Shashi Kapoor. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2004, 154 p., photographs, $50. ISBN 81-7436-348-3.  Details No. 38801

Profiles of the Life and Work of Ten Women in Indian Film, (10 Booklet)/Kaveree Bamzai, Rajashri Dasgupta, Charu Gargi, Udita Jhunjhunwala, Namrata Joshi, Nasreen Munni Kabir and Nandini Ramnath. New Delhi, Zubaan, 2009, 324 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-89884-67-3.  Details No. 60582

Ray and the Blind Painter : An Odyssey into the Inner Eye/photographs by Nemai Ghosh. Kolkata, New Age, 2004, 66 p., photographs, $28. ISBN 81-7819-041-9. Details No. 40184

Sholay : The Making of a Classic/Anupama Chopra. New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2000, 194 p., $17. ISBN 0-14-029970-X. Details No. 21555

Shyam Benegal/Sangeeta Datta. Reprint. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2003, xii, 276 p., photographs, $22. ISBN 81-7436-281-9. Details No. 32425

Soul Curry for You and Me/Amitabh Bachchan. Editorial input by R.D. Tailang. Mumbai, Popular Prakashan, 2002, 125 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-7154-984-5.   Details No. 29676

Speaking of Films/Satyajit Ray. New Delhi, Penguin, 2005, x, 220 p., $15 (pbk). ISBN 0-14-400026-1.  Details No. 42280

The Spirit of Lagaan/Satyajit Bhatkal. Mumbai, Popular Prakashan, 2002, vii, 243 p., $14 (pbk). ISBN 81-7991-003-2. Details No. 25712

Statistical Approach to the Aesthetic Communication of a Narrative Film : With Special Reference to the Film 'Charulata'/Subhash Chandra Chakraborty. Kolkata, Bitarka, 2005, x, 204 p., $12 (pbk).  Details No. 48402

Statistical Approach to the Aesthetic Communication of a Narrative Film, Vol. II, With Special Reference to the Film 'Charulata'/Subhash Chandra Chakraborty. Kolkata, Sagnik Books, 2008, x, 270 p., $25 (Vol. II). ISBN 81-903330-7-0.  Details No. 55885

Still Reading Khan/Mushtaq Shiekh. New Delhi, Om Books International, 2006, viii, 452 p., photographs, $120. ISBN 8187107618. Details No. 47700

Subject : Cinema Object : Woman : A Study of the Portrayal of Women in Indian Cinema/Shoma A. Chatterji. 1998, 298 p., Photographs, $26.  Details No. 14479

The Subject of Cinema (The Rita Ray Memorial Lectures 1987)/Gaston Roberge. Reprint. Calcutta, Seagull, 2005, xv, 259 p., $15 (pbk). ISBN 81-7046-055-7.  Details No. 43034

Suchitra Sen : A Legend in Her Lifetime/Shoma A. Chatterji. New Delhi, Rupa & Co., 2002, 80 p., photographs, $11. ISBN 81-7167998-6.   Details No. 30069

Talking Songs : Javed Akhtar in Conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir and Sixty Selected Songs by Javed Akhtar/Nasreen Munni Kabir. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005, xix, 252 p., photographs, $20. ISBN 0-19-567499-5.  Details No. 39523

Ten Years with Guru Dutt : Abrar Alvi's Journey/Sathya Saran. New Delhi, Penguin, 2008, xii, 204 p., ISBN 978-0-67008-221-6.  Details No. 60347

Thunder on Stage : A Study of Girish Karnad's Plays/edited by C.L. Khatri and Sudhir K. Arora. Jaipur, Book Enclave, 2008, xii, 236 p., $40. ISBN 81-8152-222-1. Details No. 57111

To Be or Not To Be : Amitabh Bachchan/Khalid Mohamed. Mumbai, Saraswati Creations, 2004, 424 p., colour photographs, $140 (pbk). ISBN 81-901517-1-1.  Details No. 39985

Uttam Kumar : The Ultimate Hero/Neepabithi Ghosh. New Delhi, Rupa & Co., 2002, 88 p., photographs, $11. ISBN 81-2910019-3.   Details No. 30063

Vijay Tendulkar. New Delhi, Katha, 2001, 152 p., $11. ISBN 81-87649-17-8. Details No. 21905

The Vision of Ray : Cine Posters and Beyond : A Parimal Ray Presentation of Posters and Other Film Graphics/Satyajit Ray and Sandip Ray. Kolkata, Pratikshan, 2005, 328 p., photographs, $105. ISBN 81-89323-00-8.  Details No. 40551

Yash Chopra : Fifty Years in Indian Cinema/Rachel Dwyer. New Delhi, Lotus, 2002, 256 p., $25. ISBN 81-7436-234-7. Details No. 28042

Yours Guru Dutt : Intimate Letters of a Great Indian Filmmaker/presented by Nasreen Munni Kabir. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2006, 168 p., illus., $40. ISBN 81-7436-388-2.  Details No. 44311