About the Book* - Helen - The Life And Times Of An H-bomb |
Main saare zamaane ke gham ki dawaa hoon.(I am the cure of all the sorrows of the world.)-Lyrics from Helens song in the film Adhikaar (1971)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 Pintos 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 Bollywood? 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 wonderfully 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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