Overview of Helen Book

Main saare zamaane ke gham ki dawaa hoon. (I am the cure of all the sorrows of the world.) Lyrics from Helen s song in the film Adhikaar (1971) It is now over two decades since the Hindi-film heroine drove the vamp into extinction, and even longer since the silver screen was ignited by the true Bollywood version of a cabaret. Yet, Helen nicknamed H-Bomb at the height of her career continues to rule the popular imagination. Improbably, for a dancer and a vamp, she has become an icon. Jerry Pinto s gloriously readable book is a study of the phenomenon that was Helen: Why did a refugee of French-Burmese parentage succeed as wildly as she did in Bollywood? How could otherwise conservative families sit through, and even enjoy, her cabarets ? What made Helen the desire that you need not be embarrassed about feeling ? How did she manage the unimaginable: vamp three generations of men on screen? Equally, the book is a wonderfully witty and provocative examination of middle-class Indian morality; the politics of religion, gender and sexuality in popular culture; and the importance of the song, the item-number and the wayward woman in Hindi cinema.

• Book Type :

Cinema & Broadcast

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

264 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

0143031244

• Helen Published On :

1 Mar 2006

• Resource:

Arts, Film & Photography, Cinema & Broadcast Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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