Bombay Talkie

Bombay Talkie is a 1970 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.

Plot
Lucia Lane is a British author who is researching the Bollywood film industry. She falls in love and has an affair with Vikram, a famous Bollywood actor. The plot is complicated by the fact that Vikram is married, and his friend, Hari, is in love with Lucia.

Cast

 * Shashi Kapoor as Vikram
 * Jennifer Kendal as Lucia
 * Zia Mohyeddin as Hari
 * Aparna Sen as Mala
 * Utpal Dutt as Bose
 * Florence Ezekiel (Nadira) as Anjana Devi
 * Pinchoo Kapoor as Swamiji
 * Helen as Heroine in Gold
 * Usha Iyer as Cabaret Singer
 * Ruby Myers as Gopal Ma
 * Prayag Raj as Director
 * Jalal Agha as Young Man
 * Anwar Ali as Young Man
 * Mohan Nadkarni as Young Man
 * Sukhdev as Man at Bar

Trivia
The film's song "Typewriter, Tip, Tip" (Music: Shankar–Jaikishan, Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri) and the opening credits theme were used in the Wes Anderson film The Darjeeling Limited and on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show.

Amitabh Bachchan played a minuscule role in the film. The actor confessed in an interview that Shashi Kapoor chided him for doing the role as he foresaw greater potential in Bachchan.