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Helen: The Life and Times of a Bollywood H-Bomb: Jerry Pinto
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Helen: The Life and Times of a Bollywood H-Bomb: Jerry Pinto Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Jerry Pinto


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It is now over two decades since the Hindi-film heroine drove the vamp into extinction, and even longer since the silver screen was ignited by the true Bollywood version of a cabaret. Yet, Helen - nicknamed 'H-Bomb' at the height of her career - continues to rule the popular imagination. Improbably, for a dancer and a vamp she has become an icon.

Jerry Pinto's gloriously readable book is a study of the phenomenon that was Helen: Why did a refugee of French-Burmese parentage succeed as wildly as she did in mainstream Indian cinema? How could otherwise conservative families sit through, and even enjoy, her 'cabarets'? What made Helen 'the desire that you need not be embarrassed about feeling'? How did she manage the unimaginable: vamp three generations of men on screen?

Equally, the book is a brilliantly witty and provocative examination of middle-class Indian morality; the politics of religion, gender and sexuality in popular culture; and the importance of the song, the item number and the wayward woman in Hindi cinema.

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  • Title Helen: The Life and Times of a Bollywood H-Bomb: Jerry Pinto
  • Author Jerry Pinto
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher India Portfolio, New Delhi
  • Date January 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780143031246 / 0143031244
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.79 x 5 x 0.63 in (19.79 x 12.70 x 1.60 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture actors and actresses - India, Helen
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006348663
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Jerry Pinto is a poet and journalist based in Mumbai. His published works include Surviving Women (2000) and a collection of poetry, Asylum (2004). He has also co-edited Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai with Naresh Fernandes and Confronting Love: Poems with Arundhathi Subramaniam.
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