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A no-holds-barred expose of the Hindi film industry's sordid underbelly.
Ali Amjad comes from Benares to make it as a scriptwriter in Bombay only to experience the absurd and tragic reality behind the film world's glamour as he navigates through it with his fellow strugglers.
A short fascinating novel set in the Bombay of the 1970s Rahi Masoom Raza's Scene: 75 is a crazy kaleidoscope of stories within stories populated by a cast of extraordinary and memorable - but also cynical and manipulative - characters from struggling directors and wealthy lesbians to film-obsessed social climbers and sleazy producers. In this irreverent surreal deeply satirical and darkly humorous work the author's biting prose takes an unflinching look at both Hindu-Muslim and class relations as well as at how human ties corrode and wither because of ambition and self-interest.
Superbly translated by Poonam Saxena this lost classic from Rahi Masoom Raza rips off the tinsel curtain that hides the film industry's hypocrisy insecurity and desperation for success. It is a novel that will delight and disturb in equal measure.
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