• ISBN13: 9788126939985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: December 19, 2024
• Pages: 418
• Original Price: INR 1495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: 972
• Item Weight: 560 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

For those who think, read, teach and write about Bollywood!

They are the ‘stars’ who sit behind the camera and create magic between ‘Action’ and ‘Cut.’ Meet the directors of New Age Cinema who, with their themes, characteristic styles and masterful storytelling, are bridging the gap between commerce and content, commercial and art-house cinema.

This book introduces you to the films they have made and provides a critical analysis of their craft while remaining grounded in cinematic and popular culture theories. It shows the distinct ways in which they have handled issues of gender, urban culture and social inequality.

Aysha Viswamohan is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Her areas of interest include Film Studies, American Literature and Fashion Studies. Dr. Vimal Mohan John worked on Cinema and Society for his Doctoral and Post-Doctoral research at IIT Madras. Presently, he is a faculty at St. Berchmans Autonomous College, Kerala, where he teaches courses and supervises research on Cinema, Culture and the Philosophy of Art.

• Foreword by Rajinder Dudrah ix
• Acknowledgements xiii
• Introduction by Aysha Viswamohan xv

• Part I: Cinema of Glamour and Celebration:

• The Post-liberalization Bollywood Auteur 1
• 1. Main Hoon Farah: The Choreographer as Auteur 3
• Ajay Gehlawat
• 2. Mansoor Khan: Narrative and Aesthetic Impulses of a Director in ‘Self-exile’ 17
• Aysha Viswamohan
• 3. Farhan Akhtar: Stardom of the Poster Boy of ‘New’ Hindi Cinema 36
• Aysha Viswamohan
• 4. Aditya Chopra’s ‘Glamorous Realism’ 54
• Manjunath Pendakur
• 5. Authorship, Industry and the Intermedial Relay: The Films of Vidhu Vinod Chopra 79
• Sudhir Mahadevan
• 6. Rajkumar Hirani: The Outsider 99
• Baradwaj Rangan
• 7. Sanjay Leela Bhansali: In the Realm of Innovative Cinematic Experiences 110
• Varsha Panjwani

• Part II: Cinema of Commentaries and Interventions: History, Politics and Society in Bollywood 129

• 8. In the Morbid Interregnum: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Realist Aesthetic and the Neoliberal Imaginary 131
• Jyotsna Kapur and Soumik Pal
• 9. Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta’s Feminist Quartet 160
• Alka Kurian
• 10. Sounding Dystopia: Anurag Kashyap’s Films and Relocation of Popular Tropes 185
• Madhuja Mukherjee
• 11. Globalization, Reflexivity and Genre in Zoya Akhtar’s Films 215
• Nandana Bose
• 12. Urban Dreams: Sudhir Mishra’s Representations of Social and Political Change 227
• Pavithra Narayanan and Clare Wilkinson
• 13. Ashutosh Gowariker: Narrativizing the ‘Nation’ 251
• Tutun Mukherjee
• 14. Madhur Bhandarkar and the New Bollywood Social 272
• Ulka Anjaria

• Part III: Gendered Cinema: Bollywood’s Women, Gender Politics and Representation 289

• 15. Finding Femininity: Homi Adajania and Representations of Urban Womanhood 291
• Sharanya
• 16. Gender Politics and Small-town India: The Cinema of Abhishek Chaubey 307
• Krupa Shandilya
• 17. Women in the Dark World: Sriram Raghavan and Hindi Film Noir 318
• Swetha Sridhar
• 18. ‘There Is No Greater Joy than Telling a Story One Believes In’ Our Brother Onir 330
• Nandini Bhattacharya
• 19. Location and Agency in Crafting Habib Faisal’s Authorship 344
• Monika Mehta
• Glossary 363
• Filmography 367
• Bibliography 373
• About the Editors and Contributors 383
• Index 389