Show Me Your Words

Urdu, Hindi, Hinglish, English…multilingualism complicates and enriches Bollywood filmmaking, as does theinguistic interplay between generations in a time of rapid societal change. ‘Whatanguage is mine and just how ‘mine’ is it?’ is but one of the questions posed in Show Me Your Words. In this book, Connie Haham tours the rich sociolinguisticandscape in evidence both in the making of Hindi movies and in the movies themselves. Sounds, words andines come to us via the human voice in this audio-visual medium and provide a power and poetry essential to the well-crafted scene. Featuring insightful conversations with noted film personalities such as Javed Akhtar, Shabhana Azmi, Jaideep Sahni, Piyush Mishra, Nagesh Kukunoor, Elahe Hiptoola, Kader Khan, Javed Siddiqi, Shridhar Raghavan and many more, this book analyses attitudes towardsanguage andanguage change through the prism of Hindi cinema.