• ISBN13: 9788190618601
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Music, Theatre & Films
• Publisher: Yoda Press
• Publisher Imprint: Yoda Press
• Publication Date: July 15, 2008
• Pages: 241
• Original Price: 350.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

In this important new book, Sudha Rajagopalan explores the consumption of Indian popular cinema in post-Stalinist Soviet society. In doing so, she highlights the enthusiastic response Indian popular films and their stars received from the Soviet audience, as well as the discursive and institutional context in which this consumption occurred.The book is complented by contemporary press and archival photos which capture the rapturous reception given to actors like Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Shashi kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan. This engaging book is a must read not only for students and scholars of film history and cultural studies, but every such lay reader who has grown up on a regular diet of popular Indian cinema.

Sudha Rajagopalan is an independent scholar and writer currently based in the Netherlands.