Bombay Talkie

:Disambiguation: For the Scottish Bhangra band, see Bombay Talkie

Bombay Talkie (1970) is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory. Bombay Talkies was a film studio that made films in the early part of the Hindi film industry.

Plot

Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal) is a British author who is researching the Bollywood film industry. She falls in love and has an affair with Vikram (Shashi Kapoor), who is a famous Bollywood actor. The plot is complicated by the fact that Vikram is married, and his friend, Hari, is also in love with Lucia.

In popular culture

• The song "Typewriter, Tip, Tip" (Music: Shankar-Jaikishan, Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri) was used in the Wes Anderson film The Darjeeling Limited.

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