{"product_id":"24165-the-bioscope-man-a-novel","title":"The Bioscope Man    -  A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Indrajit Hazara\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2008\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 308\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9780143101741\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As Calcutta’s star begins to fade, with the capital of His Majesty’s India shifting to Delhi, Abani Chatterjee’s is on the rise. He is well on his way to becoming the country’s first silent-screen star. But just as he is about to find fame and adulation, absurd personal disaster—a recurrent phenomenon in the Chatterjee household—strikes, and Abani becomes a pariah in the world of the bioscope. In a city recently stripped of power and prestige, and in a family house that is in disrepair, Abani spins himself into a cocoon of solitude and denial, a talent he has inherited from both his parents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1920, German director Fritz Lang comes calling, to make his ‘India film’ on the great eighteenth-century Orientalist Sir William Jones. When Abani is offered a role, he convinces Lang to make a bioscope on Pandit Ramlochan Sharma, Jones’s Sanskrit tutor, instead. Naturally, Abani plays the lead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is The Pandit and the Englishman, a film that mirrors the vocabulary of Abani’s life, hinting at the dangers of pretence and turning away, the virtues of lying and self-deception, the deranging allure of fame and impossible affections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterwards, Abani Chatterjee writes a long letter, in which he tells his story. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitty, at times dark, and always entertaining, The Bioscope Man is that story.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrain In Vain\u003cbr\u003eActing Ones Age\u003cbr\u003eMy Fair Ladies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTumbling Upstairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarlight Starbright\u003cbr\u003egeometry of Taste\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the State of Grace\u003cbr\u003eHello Operators\u003cbr\u003eHerr Monocle\u003cbr\u003eThe Cabinet of Kalibari\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, the Talkies\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Indrajit Hazara \/ Penguin \/ Paperback","offer_id":40776538357929,"sku":"24165","price":26.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/24165_e2b231af-077d-46ec-90e2-a27098d0fbe2.jpg?v=1625527280","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/24165-the-bioscope-man-a-novel","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}