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Ghalib (Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib),”Early nineteenth-century Urdu poet, often considered the greatest Urdu poetry in history. His couplets often appear in Hindi films
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Read moremasala,”In general, the Hindi word for “”spice””; in the context of Hindi film, “”masala”” refers to the dominant formulaic style of Hindi film, including each film a mix of genres (drama, melodrama, action, romance, comedy), two major characters (the “”hero”” and “”heroine””), family drama
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Read moreqawwali,”A form of musical performance, something including dance, associated with Sufism, and particularly associated with the Punjabi-speaking regions of both India and Pakistan. Qawwali is always a group performance, with a male lead singer and a group of back up male singers and musicians. The texts of Qawwali are religious, in a Sufi mode. The most traditional location for Qawwali performance is at a Sufi Dargah
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Read morenew wave,”A movement in Hindi cinema, beginning in the 1970’s and led by directors such as Shyam Benegal and Styajit Ray
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Read moreSatyajit Ray,”A Bengali director associated with the “”new wave””. While most of Ray’s films were in Begnali, he also directed films in Hindi
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Read moreparallel cinema,”A more recent term for the phenomenon once known as “”new wave””, describing “”serious””
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Read moreDevdas,”The title of a novella by Bengali author Sharatchandra Chatterjee, and the name of the novel’s central character. The novel has been made into a series of films, both in Hindi and Bengali, and has established itself as an all-time favorite plot in the Bollywood canon. The central story revolves around a love triangle: Devdas, British-educated, immatre and alcoholic, loves Paro, his childhood companion now married to someone else
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