SHOW ME YOUR WORDS

Urdu, Hindi, Hinglish,
English…multilingualism complicates and enriches Bollywood filmmaking, as
does the linguistic interplay between generations in a time of rapid societal
change. ‘What language 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 sociolinguistic landscape in evidence both in the making of Hindi movies
and in the movies themselves. Sounds, words and lines 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 towards
language and language change through the prism of Hindi cinema.