Dream Merchants : The Great Visionaries of Hindi Cinema

Contents: 1. The rainbow. 2. Bimal Roy. 3. Guru Dutta. 4. Manoj Kumar. 5. Mehboob Khan. 6. Raj Kapoor. 7. Vijay Anand. 8. Yash Chopra. 9. Enlarged vision. 10. B.R. Chopra. 11. Chetan Anand. 12. Gulzar. 13. Hrishikesh Mukherji. 14. K. Asif. 15. Kamal Amrohi. 16. L.V. Prasad. 17. Mahesh Bhatt. 18. Prakash Mehra. 19. Raj Khosla. 20. Rakesh Roshan. 21. Ramesh Sippy. 22. S.S. Vasan. 23. Sanjay Leela Bhansali. 24. Shakti Samant. 25. Shekhar Kapoor. 26. Subhash Ghai. 27. V. Shantaram. Summing up. Acknowledging various references.

Welcome to Dream Merchants that is primarily about seven best directors and finally enlarging to twenty five best directors of Hindi Cinema as visualized by its author who is not a regular film critic but a film buff from his childhood. In this book whatever he wrote is based on his visualization through it is not a random view of twenty five best directors of Hindi cinema but based on certain well founded criteria. The book traces the works of the remarkable, mass based Hindi film directors, who worked relentlessly in different tenures during last 70 years, whose films have not only entertained the millions of moviegoers but also were appreciated for their approach to meaningful cinema.

Along with photographs, this book is essential reading for all interested in Hindi cinema.