Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande. catchphrase. The Bollywood 'superstar' Amitabh Bachchan's insistence that Mehndi perform live along with him for Mrityudaata (I997), ...
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
This book brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to tackle empirical questions focusing on the relationship between soft power, hybridity, cinematic texts, and audiences.
... citizen/spectator emerge from Mother India, the quintessential cine-text of the female citizen/subject: mother, sexual object, one of the masses and yet the figurehead of the familial and communal that must be forever reprised through ...
Bollywood and Globalization