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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Bombay Talkie<br />
| image = BombayTalkie.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| director = [[James Ivory]]<br />
| producer = [[Ismail Merchant]]<br />
| writer = [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]]<br>[[James Ivory]]<br />
| starring = [[Shashi Kapoor]]<br>[[Jennifer Kendal]]<br>[[Aparna Sen]]<br>[[Zia Mohyeddin]]<br>[[Utpal Dutt]]<br />
| music = [[Shankar-Jaikishan]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Subrata Mitra]]<br />
| editing = <br />
| studio = [[Merchant Ivory Productions]]<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{film date|df=y|1970|11|20}}<br />
| country = United Kingdom <br />
| runtime = 112 minutes<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget = {{Estimation}} {{INR|110 [[lakh]]}}<br />
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR|55 [[lakh]]}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Bombay Talkie''''' is a 1970 film by [[Merchant Ivory Productions]], with a screenplay by [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]] and [[James Ivory]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Lucia Lane ([[Jennifer Kendal]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] author who is researching the [[Bollywood]] film industry. She falls in love and has an affair with Vikram ([[Shashi Kapoor]]), a famous Bollywood actor. The plot is complicated by the fact that Vikram is married, and his friend, Hari ([[Zia Mohyeddin]]), is in love with Lucia.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
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* [[Shashi Kapoor]] as Vikram<br />
* [[Jennifer Kendal]] as Lucia<br />
* [[Zia Mohyeddin]] as Hari<br />
* [[Aparna Sen]] as Mala<br />
* [[Utpal Dutt]] as Bose<br />
* [[Nadira (actress)|Florence Ezekiel (Nadira)]] as Anjana Devi<br />
* [[Pinchoo Kapoor]] as Swamiji<br />
* [[Helen (actress)|Helen]] as Heroine in Gold<br />
* [[Usha Uthup|Usha Iyer]] as Cabaret Singer<br />
* [[Ruby Myers]] as Gopal Ma<br />
* Prayag Raj as Director<br />
* [[Jalal Agha]] as Young Man<br />
* [[Anwar Ali (actor)|Anwar Ali]] as Young Man<br />
* Mohan Nadkarni as Young Man<br />
* Sukhdev as Man at Bar<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bombay Talkie|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065484/|access-date=August 22, 2020|website=IMDb}}</ref><br />
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==Soundtrack==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Serial !! Song Title !! Singer(s)<br />
|-<br />
|1 || "Good Times and Bad Times" || [[Usha Uthup]]<br />
|-<br />
|2 || "Hari Om Tatsat" || [[Usha Uthup]]<br />
|-<br />
|3 || "Tum Mere Pyaar Ki" || [[Mohammed Rafi]]<br />
|-<br />
|4 || "Type Writer" || [[Asha Bhosle]] and [[Kishore Kumar]]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://muvyz.com/moviepage/gv937526/songs/#tabs|title=Bombay Talkie (1971) - Hindi Movie Songs - Bollywood MuVyz|website=Bombay Talkie (1971) - Hindi Movie Songs - Bollywood MuVyz}}</ref><br />
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==Trivia==<br />
The film's song "Typewriter, Tip, Tip" (Music: [[Shankar-Jaikishan]], Lyrics: [[Hasrat Jaipuri]]) and the opening credits theme were used in the [[Wes Anderson]] film ''[[The Darjeeling Limited]]'' and on ''[[Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show]]''.<br />
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[[Amitabh Bachchan]] played a minuscule role in the film. The actor confessed in an interview that Shashi Kapoor chided him for doing the role as he foresaw greater potential in Bachchan.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Enigmatic Kapoor|url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/sunday-edition/the-enigmatic-kapoor.html|work=Daily Pioneer}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id=0065484|title=Bombay Talkie}}<br />
*[http://www.merchantivory.com/bombay.html Merchant Ivory overview]<br />
*[http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/08/11/bombay-talkie/ Blogpost on the film's title sequence]<br />
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{{Merchant Ivory Productions}}<br />
{{James Ivory}}<br />
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[[Category:English-language Indian films]]<br />
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[[Category:Films set in Mumbai]]<br />
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[[Category:Films directed by James Ivory]]<br />
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]]<br />
[[Category:Films about filmmaking]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Shankar–Jaikishan]]<br />
[[Category:Films with screenplays by James Ivory]]<br />
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