In a Cult Of Their Own: Bollywood Beyond Box Office by Amborish Roychoudhury — thehungryreader.wordpress.com

Title: In a Cult of Their Own: Bollywood Beyond Box Office Author: Amborish Roychoudhury Publisher: Rupa and Co. ISBN: 9788129151353 Genre: Non-Fiction, Film Writing Pages: 276 Source: Author Rating: 3 Stars This is a book about cult movies. What constitutes a cult movie, though? The one that people realized later was a superb movie. Or the one that people are still denouncing? One can’t tell really, given how movies are gauged in our country. Box-office collections still matter the most and Roychoudhury writes of movies when the moolah mattered the most (if anything it matters even more today but we have also “allowed” indie cinema to try and thrive – earlier known as “art house cinema”) , when there was no Netflix; when viewers weren’t aware of the art of cinema, so to say and yet these movies got the status of being “cult movies”.

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