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BOMBAY BEFORE BOLLYWOOD BOOKS and the popular understanding ofBombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies Hardcover December 4, 2013 by Rosie Thomas (Author) This book offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of Bombay cinema. Eschewing the conventional focus on India's social and mythological films, it foregrounds the subaltern genres of fantasy, costume and stunt films popular in the B and C circuits in the decades before and immediately after independence. It explores the influence of this 'other'