Author Dr. Vikrant Kishore

Dr. Vikrant Kishore

Dr Vikrant Kishore is a filmmaker, academic and a journalist. He has authored and edited books on Indian cinema, celebrity culture, and cultural heritage. Dr Kishore’s areas of research are Indian cinema, intangible cultural heritage, reality television programmes, and caste issues.

The Caste Blindness of Bollywood NRI Genre Films

Dr. Vikrant Kishore

May 2022

When High Caste Trumps Low Class! In a recent Netflix series Decoupled (Hardik Mehta, 2022), high profile, upper class/caste couple Arya Iyer (R. Madhavan), a renowned author, and Shruti (Surveen Chawla) a bus...