Comments Filming: A Love Story

1. Set primarily in India and spanning the 20th century, Filming tells a series of stories, including that of one time prostitute, Durga, who is persuaded to give away her young son, Ashok, and that of Saleem, the son of a prostitute and two times star of the silver screen As these stories narrated by a writer who relates the details of other people s lives but is evasive about his own, a daughter who has inherited her father s hand me down version of their family history, and a scholar who deals i [...]

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2. This book had few similarities with Tabish Khair s other book about thugs One, same story is told by connecting several narratives by different voices Phansa, Tabish s birth place in Bihar , again finds a mention.

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3. An excellent Book about a lost era and tracing the advent of cinema in India.

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