Coincidence and catastrophe: the unsettling cinema of Manmohan Desai Darragh O’Donoghue May 2022 Bollywood b. 26 February 1937, Bombay, British India d. 1 March 1994, Bombay, India ‘No event of any importance in India is complete without a goof-up’ - Ram...
Dream Girls Under a Different Moon: The Hidden Melancholy of Yash Chopra Films McKenzie Clarke May 2022 Bollywood Chandni kuch kaha/raat ne kuch suna. . Soft blue moonlight enters a room awaft in billowing curtains, the full moon’s face gently pushes aside a sheer...
The Self and the Other: Racialisation of the Northeastern Region Anushka Chaudhuri May 2022 Bollywood Violence plays an integral role for post-colonial nations. However, violence is not always as explicit as a revolution or military intervention. Its m...
Modi’s Bollywood: How ‘Social Message’ Films Amplify the Indian Government’s Policies Uttaran Das Gupta May 2022 Bollywood On April 16, 2022, violence broke out between the Hindu and Muslim communities on the outskirts of the northern Indian city Roorkee. The Hindus claime...
The Caste Blindness of Bollywood NRI Genre Films Dr. Vikrant Kishore May 2022 Bollywood When High Caste Trumps Low Class! In a recent Netflix series Decoupled (Hardik Mehta, 2022), high profile, upper class/caste couple Arya Iyer (R. Mad...
Why You Don’t Leave? Bandra English and its Sources in Love Per Square Foot Claire Cowie May 2022 Bollywood Love per Square Foot (Anand Tiwari, 2018), “Bollywood’s debut on Netflix” , is a romantic film with Mumbai as love object. The opening credits are a m...
A Devdas For Every Generation Jaymini Mistry May 2022 Bollywood Devdas is an epic semi-autobiographical Bengali novella written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. The novel was written in 1901, though was not publishe...
An Ominous Shade of Crimson: Anurag Kashyap’s Gulaal Karthick Ram Manoharan May 2022 Bollywood Anurag Kashyap is Bollywood’s enfant terrible. The release of his first film Paanch (2003) was prevented by the Indian censors owing to its violent co...
Indian Cinemas, Bollywood and the World Clelia Clini May 2022 Bollywood 2010: it’s a cold March afternoon and a group of secondary school students is gathered to watch My Name is Khan (Karan Johar, 2010). The atmosphere is...
Only the Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride: Bollywood and Western Cinephilia Darragh O’Donoghue May 2015 Bollywood Bombay cinema was my first film passion – starting with the Hindi film records our Indian neighbour constantly played when I was a child in late-1970s...
Lights, Camera, Nation-State! Bollywood’s choreography of India’s national public consciousness Srishti Chatterjee May 2015 Bollywood Almost universally in the postcolonial world, the patriotic film genre is loved and makes money. Nationalism, indeed, is an entertainment favourite - ...
