Ire in the soul: Bollywood’s angry years

Beginning with Zanjeer, the film which marked the genesis of the image of the angry young man in mainstream cinema, the book travel through the last three decades, right down to the big grossers of the 90’s like Beta and Aankhen. Why did Amitabh Bachchan become a superstar?
Why did Maine Pyar Kiya mark the advent of a new series of angry love stories? was the Khalnayak really an anti-hero?
Has the Hindi film heroine been able to walk out of the hero’s shadow in an age of women’s liberation?

The book looks behind the chimera and seeks out the answers to such question. The analysis includes all the popular films of Amitabh Bachchan, the growth of the political cinema of the 80’s the persistent dominance of family social and the resurgent popularity of love stories.