The bioscope man (Record no. 3204)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780143101741 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823 |
| Item number | HAZ |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hazra, Indrajit |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The bioscope man |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Haryana |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2008 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 307 |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | INR |
| Price amount | 299.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | As Calcutta’s star begins to fade, with the capital of His Majesty’s PBI – India shifting to Delhi, Abani Chatterjee’s is on the rise. He is well on his way to becoming the country’s first silent-screen star. But just as he is about to find fame and adulation, absurd personal disaster—a recurrent phenomenon in the Chatterjee household—strikes, and Abani becomes a pariah in the PBI – World of the bioscope. In a city recently stripped of power and prestige, and in a family house that is in disrepair, Abani spins himself into a cocoon of solitude and denial, a talent he has inherited from both his parents. In 1920, German director Fritz Lang comes calling, to make his ‘PBI – India film’ on the great eighteenth-century Orientalist Sir William Jones. When Abani is offered a role, he convinces Lang to make a bioscope on Pandit Ramlochan Sharma, Jones’s Sanskrit tutor, instead. Naturally, Abani plays the lead. The result is The Pandit and the Englishman, a film that mirrors the vocabulary of Abani’s life, hinting at the dangers of pretence and turning away, the virtues of lying and self-deception, the deranging allure of fame and impossible affections. Afterwards, Abani Chatterjee writes a long letter, in which he tells his story. Witty, at times dark, and always entertaining, The Bioscope Man is that story. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Indic fiction (English) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Bill No | Bill Date | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Accession Number | Date last seen | Copy number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | 31914 | 18-08-2022 | Indian Institute of Management LRC | Indian Institute of Management LRC | General Stacks | 09/22/2022 | University Book House Pvt. Ltd. | 205.26 | 823 HAZ | 003213 | 09/22/2022 | 1 | 299.00 | 09/22/2022 | Book |