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Author: Anna M. M. Vetticad (Author)

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About the Author Anna MM Vetticad is a prominent Delhi-basedjournalist. In her 18 years in the profession, she has worked withIndia Today, The Indian Express and Headlines Today, and been aConsulting Editor with The New Indian Express Among her variousassignments at HT, six hosted her own television talk show 'StarTrek'. She has reported on major Indian entertainment and lifestyleevents and international ones including the Cannes Film Festivaland the Oscars. She is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of MassCommunication, New Delhi, where she is now a visiting lecturer. Sheis currently also a freelance journalist, social media consultantand avid blogger. You can read her film reviews on her blogannavetticadgoes2themovies and reach her ontwitter.com/annavetticad. The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic is journalist Anna MMVetticad's account of a yeai in which she resolved to blog reviewsof eveiy single Hindi film released in the NCR Through theexperience of viewing and reviewing those 121 films andinterviewing the people who made them, the author chronicles thechanging face of Bollywood, discovering in the process an industrybeyond the Vidya Balans and Priyanka Chopras, the Kapoors and theKhans, the other Bollywood where beautiful small films routinelydisappear without a trace and where an array of dismal films aremade on the sidelines to satisfy personal egos. Through themicrocosm of Bollywood, this book discusses the ethics offilmmaking, film criticism and film marketing in India, and raisesimportant political and social questions that would concern anincreasingly discerning audience. With both humour and pathos, TheAdventures of an Intrepid Film Critic gives readers an overview ofcontemporary Hollywood not attempted so far. USP Written by leading film critic, Anna MM Vetticad Foreword by Ranbir Kapoor Discusses the ethics of filmmaking in Bollywood Presents a humorous yet thoughtful account of Bollywood films Analyses milestone trends in contemporary Bollywood