Abstract
This paper explores the dynamics that sustain the ‘life imitating art’ of Indian filmdom in Shashi Tharoor’s Show Business. It particularly focuses on Tharoor’s experimental narrative artifice that consists in reconfiguring film scripts to present ‘illusion’ as the only reality in the multi-dimensional fictional space of his novel. It also shows how Tharoor elevates the importance of cinema by presenting his story in cinematic and fragmentary ‘takes’ and ‘shots’. Identifying ‘creativity’ as the novel’s most crucial dynamic, the paper concludes that Shashi Tharoor engages in this new creative metaphor to highlight the influence of Bollywood on the postcolonial spectator-reader.
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