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Title: Factually incorrect, knowledge of Hindi highly suspect!
Review: As a student of cinema and history, I am amazed at the attention this book on the popular Indian cinema has been able to garner. The book is full of such obvious howlers as for instance the translation of BR Chopra's "Naya Daur" as not the "New Epoch" but as the "New Race". It seems that the writer has been somewhat overwhelmed by the rural tonga race included in the film. I wonder if, with that kind of understanding of the broadly "Hindustani" language, it is really possible to write the kind of seminal film and cultural study that this book is being so unabashedly advertised as by the likes of Robert Stam and the OUPs of this planet. Having gone through the book I have been able to find at least 71 similar mistakes. Just because India is far off and Hindustani an unknown quantity, one doesn't have to jump to Ms Chakravarty's defence.
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