https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Cinema_CinemaCinema Cinema - Revision history2026-07-30T22:51:43ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.4https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Cinema_Cinema&diff=472408&oldid=prevOmhospital at 18:18, 17 September 20252025-09-17T18:18:32Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2022}}<br />
{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Cinema Cinema<br />
| image = <br />
<br />
| caption = <br />
| director = [[Krishna Shah]]<br />
| producer = [[Bhupendra Shah]]<br />
| writer = [[Krishna Shah]]<br>[[Kamleshwar (writer)|Kamleshwar]] (Hindi version)<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[Dharmendra]]<br>[[Amitabh Bachchan ]]<br>[[Hema Malini]]<br>[[Zeenat Aman]]<br />
| music = [[Vijay Raghav Rao]]<br />
| cinematography = [[K.K. Mahajan]]<br />
| editing = [[Amit Bose]]<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{film date|df=y|1979|06|27|India}}<br>October 1979 (US)<br />
| runtime = 138 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = <br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
}}<br />
'''''Cinema Cinema''''' is a 1979 quasi-documentary of the [[Indian people|Indian]] film world ([[Bollywood]]), written and directed by [[Krishna Shah]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-xpm-2013-10-16-sns-201310162122reedbusivarietyn1200732409-20131016-story.html |title=Krishna Shah, Director of ''Hard Rock Zombies,'' Dies at 75 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=16 October 2013 |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref> The movie was Shah's fourth as feature film director, following the disastrous ''[[Shalimar (1978 film)|Shalimar]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://thebigindianpicture.com/2014/11/back-to-the-shalimar-i-ii/ |title=Rishi Majumder: Back to the ''Shalimar'' I & II |publisher=The Big Indian Picture |date=November 2014 |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref><br />
<br />
==Overview==<br />
''Cinema Cinema'' was released on 27 July 1979 in India and in October 1979 in the US. The documentary features original interviews with notable Indian film stars, including [[Dharmendra]], [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Hema Malini]] and [[Zeenat Aman]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bobbytalkscinema.com/recentpost/Cinema-Cinema-1979-and-Film--918 |title=Cinema Cinema (1979) and Film Hi Film (1983) - Two Rare, Lesser Known Attempts Made, Using Clippings of Many Released and Unreleased (Hindi) Films. |publisher=Bobby Sing: Bobby Talks Cinema |date=5 June 2012 |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref> The narrative is staged to present the history of [[Hindi]]-language cinema while exploring various political themes of the 20th century, all through the reactions and interactions of a typical [[Indian people|Indian]] theatre audience of the 70s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cuttingthechai.com/2014/01/6636/interval-cinema-hall-screening-hindi-film-1970s/ |title=Watch: Interval At a Cinema Hall in the 1970s, Screening a Hindi Film |publisher=Cutting the Chai |date=29 January 2014 |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref><br />
<br />
Krishna Shah hired the highly regarded [[Kamleshwar (writer)|Kamleshwar]] for the Hindi-language version of the screenplay, while [[Parallel cinema|Parallel Cinema]] veteran [[K.K. Mahajan]] provided the cinematography. [[Sony Music India]] would later release a ''Cinema Cinema'' soundtrack album, featuring [[Alka Yagnik]], [[Udit Narayan]], [[Sadhana Sargam]], [[Sudesh Bhosle]], [[Vanraj Bhatia]], and [[Sonali Bajpayee]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deezer.com/us/album/63205732|title=''Cinema Cinema'' (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |publisher=Deezer |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref><br />
<br />
==Reception==<br />
[[Uday Bhatia]] and [[Jai Arjun Singh]] of India's [[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]] found ''Cinema Cinema'' to have an "excellent [[Parallel Cinema]] pedigree,"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/50-years-of-hindi-alternative-cinema-1556870638279.html |title=50 Years of Hindi Alternative Cinema - 1979: Cinema Cinema (Krishna Shah) |newspaper=Mint |date=4 May 2019 |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref> while [[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] London said the film "is not without interest as a helping of 'Madras Curry' (the staple [[Bombay]] diet of lavish melodramas packed to inordinate length with interminable songs, dances and comic interludes)."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/cinema-cinema |title=Film: Cinema Cinema |magazine=Time Out |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref><br />
<br />
In the book ''Journalism, Democracy and Civil Society in India,'' authors Rao and Mudgal singled-out ''Cinema Cinema's'' depiction of a 1970s-era theatre experience as a demonstration of audience abuse by Indian exhibitors of the time.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DjduDwAAQBAJ&q=%22cinema+cinema%22+%22krishna+shah%22 |title=Journalism, Democracy and Civil Society in India, edited by Shakuntala Rao, Vipul Mudgal |publisher=Taylor & Francis Group - Routledge |date=2017 |isbn=9781315293790 |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0214591}}<br />
* [https://memsaabstory.com/2009/11/25/cinema-cinema-1979/ Casual analysis of ''Cinema Cinema'']<br />
<br />
[[Category:1979 films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian documentary films]]<br />
[[Category:1979 documentary films]]<br />
<br />
<br />
{{1970s-documentary-film-stub}}</div>Omhospital