Have you ever thought that you want to become a actor or actress? Or you are interested in acting but don’t know how to improvise your acting skills? Or you are someone who wants to learn Indian method acting? If you’re struck with the idea of acting and don’t know how to act then this book is for you! This work presents a comprehensive film acting learning course based on the famous Indian School of Method Acting pioneered by Dilip Kumar, the actor hailed by none other than our highly celebrated filmmaker Satyajit Ray as “the ultimate method actor.” What more can you expect? This work is conceived as a highly valuable learning resource book for the innumerable new aspirants in the Indian subcontinent, who intend to build a bright acting career in cinema. It envisages helping these aspirants (and present actors as well) to greatly enhance their acting acumen and emerge as the great actors of the future. For these acting students and aspirants, This ‘learning package ’ from this great professor-emeritus of acting can help in gathering and imbibing all those nuances and insights that could bring forth their hidden talents in a big way. This book is a perfect collection of all the knowledge you need to know about the Method Acting!
Adding the design of this book for readers’ better understanding:
(a) This work attempts to bring forth the genesis of Dilip Kumar School of Method Acting with numerous examples taken from the thespian’s cinema.
(b) It presents a total of 80 Film Acting Lessons, consisting of 358 scenes selected from the actor’s 59 films that can be adjudged as his most memorable and inspirational performances in film
acting.
(c) It attempts to capture the essential content and context of the roles played by Dilip Kumar and the ways he employed his ‘Method’ in portraying them. This presentation has been done by taking up the four manifestations of his hero on celluloid, namely,
1. Tragedy King’s Extremely Painful Negotiations with Grief
2. The Heroic Attributes of the Crusading Hero
3. The Anti-Hero Manifestations
4. Comedy King’s Breezing Romances/Comedies.
(d) To ensure the familiarity of the reader with a film under consideration, an outline of its story precedes the highlighting of the landmark scenes.
(e) The location of such scenes in a given film’s length is given in hours-minutes-seconds.
(f) The YouTube and Amazon links of most of the films are also given to the users of this work.
This work also presents for its readers the celebrated Hollywood School of Method Acting as a formal discipline as was founded by the world’s greatest theoretician of dramatic arts, Russia-born Konstantin Stanislavsky, and the contribution of other four teachers of acting – Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, and Uta Hagen. This chapter also presents a short profile of the most illustrious graduates of these teachers.
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