Bombay Talkies (film)

Bombay Talkies
Bombay Talkies Official Release Poster
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKaran Johar
Dibakar Banerjee
Zoya Akhtar
Anurag Kashyap
Written byKaran Johar
Dibakar Banerjee
Zoya Akhtar
Anurag Kashyap
Reema Kagti
Produced byAshi Dua
StarringRani Mukerji
Randeep Hooda
Saqib Saleem
Vineet Kumar Singh
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Naman Jain
Swati Das
Katrina Kaif
Amitabh Bachchan
CinematographyAnil Mehta
Carlos Catalan
Nikos Andritsakis
Rajeev Ravi
Ayananka Bose
Pankaj Kumar
Edited byDeepa Bhatia
Aarti Bajaj
Music byAmit Trivedi
Production
company
Flying Unicorn Entertainment
Distributed byViacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 3 May 2013 (2013-05-03)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹30 crore[1]
Box officeest. ₹10 crore[2]

Bombay Talkies is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language anthology film consisting of four short films, directed by Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap.[3] The film released on 3 May 2013, coinciding with and celebrating the 100th year of Indian cinema and the beginning of a new era in modern cinema.[4] It screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2013.[5]

Bombay Talkies was the first of three anthology films from Johar, Banerjee, Akhtar and Kashyap. It was followed by Lust Stories in 2018 and Ghost Stories in 2020, the latter two were released on Netflix.

  1. ^ Shekar. "Bombay Talkies succeeds at Box Office". Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Bombay Talkies Weekend Territorial Breakdown". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Bollywood directors join hands to pay homage to Indian cinema". The Times of India. 7 May 2012. Archived from the original on 22 June 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  4. ^ Dubey, Bharati (25 January 2012). "Film industry to mark Phalke centenary". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  5. ^ "Festival de Cannes - Site Officiel / Institutionnel". Festival de Cannes. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2013.