Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema

Cover page
	Half title page
	Full title page
	Copyright page
	Dedication page
	Marketing  page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Cinema of Glamour and Celebration
	1 Main Hoon Farah
	2 Mansoor Khan
	3 Farhan Akhtar
	4 Aditya Chopra’s ‘Glamorous Realism’
	5 Authorship, Industry and the Intermedial  Relay
	6 Rajkumar Hirani
	7 Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Part II Cinema of Commentaries andInterventions
	8 In the Morbid Interregnum
	9 Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta’s Feminist Quartet
	10 Sounding  Dystopia
	11 Globalization, Reflexivity and Genre in Zoya Akhtar’s Films
	12 Urban  Dreams
	13 Ashutosh  Gowariker
	14  Madhur Bhandarkar and the New Bollywood Social
Part III Gendered Cinema
	15 Finding Femininity
	16 Gender Politics and Small-town India
	17 Women in the Dark World
	18 ‘There Is No Greater Joy than Telling a Story One Believes In’—Our Brother Onir
	19 Location and Agency in Crafting Habib Faisal’s Authorship
Glossary
Filmography
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index