Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema

423 Pages·2017·3.898 MB·English

by  Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Vimal Mohan John

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Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
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Vimal Mohan John
ISBN 978-93-860-6239-0
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BEHIND
the
SCENES
Contemporary Bollywood
Directors and their Cinema

BEHIND
the
SCENES
Contemporary Bollywood
Directors and their Cinema
EDITED BY
Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
Vimal Mohan John
Copyright © Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan and Vimal Mohan John, 2017
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Contents
Foreword by Rajinder Dudrah xi
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan xvii
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 Iqbal Viswamohan
3 Farhan Akhtar: Stardom of the Poster Boy of ‘New’
Hindi Cinema 36
Aysha Iqbal 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
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