Bollywood movies are glorious, colourful spectacles of romance, action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in the world, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a year, which are watched by passionate fans around the globe. In recent decades, as India has experienced economic and social change, both the film industry and the entertainment it produces have transformed themselves as well. Several writers and authors tried to encapsulate Bollywood into interesting coffee table books through their understanding, experience and observations. Presenting the compilation of few coffee table books over the years has been published that makes a good read for every Bollywood Lover.

Living The Dream: Life of the 'Bollywood' Actor - by Mark Bennington: This is a visual story with 112 pictures of those who try to make it in the world`s largest film industry. These pictures shot in a unique candid moments and features every actor in the industry right from those starting off to those who have tasted super stardom. Most portraits are accompanied with short interviews of the actor and catch the true essence of those thousands of people who every year come to Mumbai for one single thing - To pursue their Dream. As Karan Johar puts it in the Foreword, What this book captures is something we have never seen before - it is what life really looks like for an actor in Bombay.` The Life of the 'Bollywood' Actor recently got been published and released as a coffee table book by Harper Collins India.

Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief: Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking - by Stephen Alter: He is a writer who grew up in India and has inside access to Bollywood acts as translator and tour guide in this firsthand look into the world of Bombay films. Following the making of a Bollywood version of Othello, he explores the enormous popularity of Hindi movies and reveals the actors, directors, musicians, and feats of artifice that make them so compelling and unique. From the blessing ceremony performed each time a movie starts shooting to the secrets behind the song- and-dance extravaganzas, Fantasies of a Bollywood Love-Thief is a 260 pages beguiling introduction to the rituals and culture of a movie making industry so similar to and yet utterly different from our own.

First Day First Show - by Anupama Chopra: A 376 pages coffee table book is Anupama Chopra`s guide to this dazzling world of lights, cameras and stars but also to its shadowing darkness. She takes us into the lives of the stars and into the struggles of those who never make it to center stage; she lets us participate in the making of legendary hits like 'Sholay' and 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge' and also the hard-won successes of independent film-makers; she shows us the glamour as well as the murky links with the underworld. There is also the odd story of the royal bodyguard of Bhutan who became a scriptwriter; of the embarrassed Pakistani soldiers at Wagah border who did not allow their favorite Indian superstars to shoot. This book has all the ingredients of a Bollywood hit: there is friendship, love, despair, hope, heartbreak and triumph.

Indian Cinema: The Bollywood Saga - by Dinesh Raheja, Dinesh Raheja: An encyclopaedia of Bollywood films, this book takes readers from the silent era films to the latest box-office hits of the current year. Indian Cinema: The Bollywood Saga a 155 pages coffee table book is written by two of the finest film journalists, this lavishly illustrated title features some rare archival photos collected from all over the country. Special features include pen-portraits of famous actors, trade details, interviews of eminent film personalities and more.

Bollywood's India: Hindi Cinema as a Guide to Contemporary India: Exploring the nature of mainstream Hindi cinema, the strikingly illustrated Bollywood`s India examines its non realistic depictions of everyday life in India and what it reveals about Indian society. Showing how escapism and entertainment function in Bollywood cinema, Rachel Dwyer argues that Hindi cinema s interpretations of India over the last two decades are a reliable guide to understanding the nation s changing hopes and dreams. She looks at the ways Bollywood has imagined and portrayed the unity and diversity of the country what it believes and feels, as well as life at home and in public. Using Dwyer`s two decades spent working with filmmakers and discussing movies with critics and moviegoers, Bollywood`s India a 272 pages book is an illuminating look at Hindi cinema." This superb book is everything we could have expected from a major authority on Indian cinema. It shows both how India has shaped Bollywood and Bollywood has shaped the Indian imagination. It will be indispensable for scholars and a delight for the general reader.

Bollywood Themes - by Tushar A. Amin: Bollywood Themes is embellished with rare photographs and visually stunning design, it`s is a rich spread dedicated to the lovers of Hindi cinema across the world. Whether it is talking about the 'Mother Figure', an inseparable element of Bollywood or the 'Great Indian Joint Family' or the 'Singing and Dancing', the book deals with all the important themes recurring time and again in mainstream Hindi Films. Browsing through the stories and the accompanying visuals, the reader can understand how intrinsically the rich emotional tapestry of Bollywood movies is woven into the warps and wefts of our day-to-day life and how these films are the perfect escape route from mundane reality into the dreamy, romantic and glorious world of Bollywood. A 160 pages book has its forward written by director and choreographer Farah Khan.

Bollywood movies are glorious, colourful spectacles of romance, action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in the world, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a year, which are watched by passionate fans around the globe. In recent decades, as India has experienced economic and social change, both the film industry and the entertainment it produces have transformed themselves