42 Lessons I Learnt from Bollywood

by Sahil Rizwan

Movies affect our growing-up years more than we'd like to admit, they say. Which means the average Bollywood fan is totally screwed. 42 Lessons I Learnt From Bollywood is a jolly look back at the glorious decade for Hindi cinema that was the nineties. Those were eventful years. The economy opened up. India changed. The Internet arrived. And Bollywood was like, 'Wait for me, I can change too!' 42 Lessons is the story of that transformation, even if it wasn't always for the best. This is a treasury of the wisdom a young man garnered growing up on that unsteady fare. From Kuch Kuch Hota Hai to Khalnayak, forty-two blockbusters - even some you may not have heard of - seen through the ever-attentive eyes of the Vigil Idiot.

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 19, 2015

Reviews

[Aayushi Mahajan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wanted to read this book since I'm a fan of Sahil Rizwan, his awesomesauce sense of humour, his matchstick characters, cool slang, and his sarcastic-cynical sense of humour. Did I mention his sense of humour? So this book is a collection of your regular vigil idiot blogs with the exception that all these movies hail from 90s. Which leads me to question "dude really! You really seem to had a troubled childhood if you actually watched all these crappy movies!!!" And some people think it's just me who has watched all the crappy movies possible in Bollywood (@tezun). True to its legacy the book has some genuinely epic funny stuff (booyaah!) with not so funny lame stuff (cray cray!). But that's how Sahil Rizwan rolls. Book deserves three stars. One extra star for all those moments which actually made me laugh out loud (booyaah!).

[Bulbul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book. 42 comics on movies from the 90s, what's not to love? I was rolling on the floor with laughter while reading some of the stuff. This is my kind of coffee table book.