Menoka Has Hanged Herself

Author :

Sharmistha Gooptu

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Rs299 Rs399 25% OFF

Availability: Available

Shipping-Time: Usually Ships 3-5 Days

    

Rating and Reviews

0.0 / 5

5
0%
0

4
0%
0

3
0%
0

2
0%
0

1
0%
0
Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication Year 2019
ISBN-13

9789386797667

ISBN-10 9789386797667
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 368 Pages
Language (English)
Weight (grms) 590
A telephone call from the studio, night of the new year...1937. Menoka, heroine of Bharat Talkies, has hanged herself by her own sari, in costume for her new film... Silent films are now the talkies. Bioscope pictures are a rage and film stars subjects of gossip and fantasy. The world of films is a phantasmagoria, a place where young girls become prey in the hands of those that have the power to give them fame and fortune. Two women, both remarkably different and both stars of this world of bioscope films might now lose all... and one even her life, if they take the wrong steps forward. Sickness lurks in a lust for dead flesh... unlikely bonds are forged... and an impossible love rears up. In this world of shadows and greyness, unlikely people come into their own

Sharmistha Gooptu

Sharmistha Gooptu is a film historian, and author of Bengali Cinema, An Other Nation (Routledge, 2010). She is Editor of the journal South Asian History and Culture and the South Asian History and Culture Books Series
No Review Found