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Bombay Talkies (2013)

Bombay Talkies poster
Directed by
Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 07m
Rated
UA
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 61 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Four short films by different directors celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema. Each story looks at love, dreams, and identity through a personal lens.

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What happens

Bombay Talkies is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language anthology film consisting of four short films, directed by Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap. The film released on 3 May 2013, coinciding with and celebrating the 100th year of Indian cinema and the beginning of a new era in modern cinema. The title pays homage to the 1930s film studio Bombay Talkies. It screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2013. Bombay Talkies was the first of three anthology films from Johar, Banerjee, Akhtar and Kashyap. It was followed by Lust Stories in 2018 and Ghost Stories in 2020, the latter two were released on Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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