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The Longest Kiss: Devika Rani's unusual story is a window on pre-1947 Bombay's elite mores


The Longest Kiss: Devika Rani’s unusual story mirrors formative years of Bombay s film industry and its elite mores
Kishwar Desai’s biography of arguably Hindi cinema’s first female superstar registers historical moments in the nascent Bollywood of 1930s and 40s
20 Jan, 2021
In many ways, the particularity of an epoch and the place often creeps into a biographical sketch. This is the case in
The Longest Kiss: The Life and Times of Devika Rani by Kishwar Desai, an account of the unusual journey of arguably the first female superstar of Hindi cinema. The historical register of Bombay of the 1930s and 40s finds its way into the pages of the book, even if that may not have been the intention. While Desai doesn’t let the leading lady slip out of the narrative frame, the book offers some slices of evolving elite and middle-class mores in India’s western metropolis in the first half of the twentieth century. ....

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