https://www.ulkaanjaria.com/articles daily 0.75 2024-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/353d6b15-6932-4482-954d-7dd9a6311c08/39459-xtfmskgsvj-1506236174.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/64dddc71-8d9d-4bc6-9a08-c9afc811d514/71Z7QVKhLPL._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/6b8aae8a-600e-4eff-bc3a-eb0f8741740a/Qatil-Haseenaon-Ke-Naam-2-1200.jpg Articles - “Femme Fatale Talks Back: Meenu Gaur on Feminist Filmmaking” Meenu Gaur is a British South Asian filmmaker, director, and screenwriter. She cowrote and codirected the 2013 Pakistani feature film Zinda Bhaag with collaborator Farjad Nabi. Gaur’s newest project is a six-episode web series called Qatil Haseenaon Ke Naam, released globally on Zee 5 in December 2021. The story revolves around several women suffering under the daily grind of patriarchy and misogyny, who take agency over their own lives to enact vengeance on those who have mistreated them. The series uses a noir aesthetic that refuses the high art/low art distinction, offering a pulpy and blood-soaked vision of female empowerment. I spoke with Meenu Gaur about the new series and how it advances a “desi noir” aesthetic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607400321191-ZNRHYRM66LT7K8VU9WJI/bollywood-2-e1585685819993.jpg Articles - “India’s Fans and India’s Future” There are millions of die-hard film fans around the world, but it might be said that their affective intensity is particularly concentrated in the cinema halls and the public spaces of India. Fans in India come from all walks of life: they are men and women; straight and queer people; adults, grandparents, and children; Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians. As such, could fandom point to a new kind of future, one that transcends rather than reinscribes differences? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607366755467-GIVSR34BWM9SVP8J3LS4/136308-ocjfukuhme-1598196144.jpg Articles - “Queering the Indian Novel” In September 2018, Section 377 of the colonial-era penal code was ruled unconstitutional by the Indian Supreme Court, at long last decriminalizing homosexuality in the country. By most accounts, this is a joyous, but also late, decision, belying the huge proliferation of queer activism, writings and cultural production that has become an essential part of the Indian public sphere over the last several decades. Although much of the discourse generated by these oppositional queer movements was centered around the battle to get 377 overturned, there has also been a rich diversity of fictional texts that have striven to document the diversity of queer lives, not only in their political action, but also in their most quotidian. This has taken place in English, of course, but also across languages and across the urban-rural divide. Works like Sachin Kundalkar’s Marathi novel Cobalt Blue (2013) and Vasudhendra’s Kannada volume of short stories Mohanaswamy (2015) take pains to describe in beautiful but also painful details the torments of queer love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607401004628-REN77YD8CGJGS1EIQYMY/9780812979657.jpg Articles - “The Goddess of Loss: Indian Literature in English after Arundhati Roy” In June of 1997, on the verge of graduating from high school, I received an award for my study of foreign languages, a book wrapped in blue shiny paper. As I opened it, a small clipping from TIME slipped out—an article on an Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, whose novel was taking the literary world by storm. My prize was Roy’s novel, The God of Small Things (1997). I sat down to read it immediately. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607401403335-WFA5UJZAAZSG9AUAEFCQ/Mazaa+poster+final+1.jpg Articles - “Mazaa: Rethinking Fun, Pleasure and Play in South Asia” While researching the lives of day labourers in New Delhi for his book, A Free Man, the journalist Aman Sethi meets Ashraf, a housepainter who enjoys drinking with his friends and, because he works freelance, has the ability ‘to tell the maalik (boss) to fuck off when [he] want[s] to’. Ashraf’s sense of freedom in not having steady employment compels Sethi to think differently about the way journalists write people’s lives in India. Throughout their time together, Ashraf stubbornly refuses to let Sethi turn his life into an allegory for neo-liberal precarity. So, when Sethi urges Ashraf to narrate the ‘basic facts’ of his life, Ashraf complains: ‘You take the mazaa (fun) out of every story’. As Sethi’s requests continue to prove futile, he realises that Ashraf’s insistence on mazaa—the Hindi/Urdu word for fun or pleasure—is not only a claim to fun, but a resistance to being made representative of some larger story that, Sethi admits, ‘for all purposes, I had already written’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1608057965532-EOSKYT35VXX7LIQL9CY7/15jan_Amitabh-Bachchan-Deewar-still.png Articles - Great Performances: “Amitabh Bachchan in Deewaar” Possibly his most famous role, Amitabh Bachchan’s performance in Yash Chopra’s Deewaar (1975) is certainly one of his best, in part for how it represents the “angry young man” from the earlier film, Zanjeer (1973), in which Bachchan made his name as Hindi cinema’s top superstar. The angry young man is a figure largely credited to the writing team of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, known as Salim-Javed, who are seen to have given expression to the voice of subaltern discontent in a 1970s India increasingly disillusioned by the failure of the state to follow through on the promises made at independence. Many have praised Bachchan’s performances in these films, but little attention has been given to the role of his performances in modulating the affect of anger and thus shaping the angry young man as more than merely “angry.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607712262791-KJVK73IOS6NFZ04A42GP/9781138745520.jpg Articles - “Global Pakistan in the Wake of 9/11” The events of 9/11 brought Pakistan once again into a global light, but largely through negative representations. I argue that Anglophone Pakistani literature written since 2001 has been the key site of contesting these negative representations by offering a new understanding of Pakistan’s place in the global imaginary. The chapter will show how internationally well-known authors Kamila Shamsie, Mohammed Hanif and Mohsin Hamid are among those involved in rethinking Pakistan’s place in the world through their novels and, in this way, in thinking the global novel anew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1608332310848-JQ6LWNBWVIQ6C6CEKC40/Americanah.jpg Articles - “The Realist Impulse and the Future of Postcoloniality” Americanah marks a significant break from the postcolonial novel. First, it is set in the present rather than in the past. Second, it fuses the trope of an unresolved postcolonial melancholy, specifically an emigrant’s relationship with her homeland, with contemporary questions of race in the United States, where questions of identity have shifted after the election of its first black president. Additionally, while it rehearses the failures of postcolonial nationalism, the novel questions those representations when Ifemelu moves back to Lagos at the end. Lastly, the aesthetics of the blog—which appears in snippets throughout the text—put pressure on conventional notions of literary writing while gesturing to the new and more transparent modes of knowledge production characteristic of the digital age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1608242903465-OCJIEMWS6MHV4TAFF703/9780385663458.jpg Articles - “‘A True Lahori’: Mohsin Hamid and the Problem of Place in Pakistani Fiction The transition from Moth Smoke to The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a movement from the subjective experience of Lahore – its landmarks and its lived hardships – to an “objective” (in a Hegelian sense) understanding of the city, as a place to be acted upon rather than an actor in its own right. The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s Lahore becomes a place of ambiguity, calling into question global knowledge of Pakistan. By refusing to represent the narrator and his interlocutor in a conventional sense, and by emptying out the Lahore novel and filling in its center with the story of global finance and the war on terror, Hamid suggests that Pakistan as a place is under threat of being reduced to its representation in the language of security. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1608574408965-HHBP76YS5EZP2YW5BZ8M/59027.jpg Articles - “Madhur Bhandarkar and the New Bollywood Social” Bhandarkar’s particular predicament seems to be that his films are neither gritty and realist enough nor melodramatic and spectacular enough. Indeed, he seems to be profoundly aware of the vacillations of representation that are necessary for a commercial, melodramatic and non-realist mode such as popular cinema to represent social concerns. Upon closer look, his films portray an acute awareness of the possibilities and limitations of popular cinema though extended experiments with realism and political film-making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1608333515989-K49XFS2DGBF3VX5X2DC6/99951191.jpg Articles - “Slumdog Millionaire and Epistemologies of the City” A majority of voices have been somewhat cynical about the film’s success. Many critiques come from a well-founded mistrust of popular culture and an awareness of the largely racist and imperialist history of cross-cultural representations of India and the East in Western film, media and literature. These critiques rely on a generalized skepticism of the political potential of melodramatic film. However, what most critics have overlooked is how Boyle’s film offers a possibility for rethinking the relationship between popular cinema and the contemporary Indian urban experience precisely through its fantasy plot. This necessitates revising long-held assumptions within literary and urban studies, such as the monoglossia of filmic texts and the necessarily conservative politics of melodrama and fantasy, along with reconsidering Boyle’s longer engagement with the aesthetics of urban life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607710055484-TZJDVGMR46KM0SXF6YZS/612JUxWoSyL._SX318_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Articles - “Fifty Years Later, Shrilal Shukla’s ‘Raag Darbari’ is being reborn” A conference was held recently at Delhi University to commemorate 50 years of Shrilal Shukla’s Hindi novel Raag Darbari. Shukla was an IAS officer who wrote Raag Darbari based on his experiences in rural UP, winning the Sahitya Akademi award for it in 1969. The book went on to capture the imagination of Hindi readers. Funny, nihilistic, and brutally satirical, Raag Darbari is a novel that continues to resonate in the Indian imagination today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607484638676-IOTEQYHZ1HKE86UK0LY2/51Xv4JMSAWL._AC_SY400_.jpg Articles - “Gay Bombay and Queer Futures” Parmesh Shahani’s book Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India is a fascinating text that marks a contemporary moment of possibility for India’s queer communities. Although originally published in 2008, ten years before the repeal of Section 377 in September 2018, the book’s optimism, playfulness and sense of experiment make it potentially even more relevant for today’s moment, when long-standing activism and judicial petitioning have finally borne fruit, leaving time and energy for creative envisionings of India’s queer futures. Like so much contemporary queer writing in India, Gay Bombay does not live in Section 377’s shadow, but probes the depths of queer experience in the city beyond the domains defined by the law, marking out spaces of pride, desire, “love and (be)longing.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607710695874-JCXPNAJXKXKJ21I3WWMK/51yQJaWc4AL.jpg Articles - “Realist Hieroglyphics: Aravind Adiga and the New Social Novel” In what many consider to be a postrealist age, what are the new modes emerging that reflect a continued investment in representing contemporary life? This question has particular relevance for the novel today, with the globalization of literary styles and the intensified transnationalism of characters and settings. We have seen a range of novels over the course of the first decade of the twenty-first century that return to realism as a means of exposing contemporary political inequities. This double gesture—toward realism on the one hand and a concern with structural injustice on the other—constitutes what I call a new social realism, a mode that dialectically transcends early twentieth-century progressive writing and the self-conscious aesthetics of a Rushdean postmodernism in order to draw attention to social inequities in India today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607778917637-FDTBK1IHHFFKG624OI1M/51FSOMhfZLL._SX323_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Articles - “‘Lady Lolita’s Lover’ shows us there can be no Great Indian Novel right now” When Mumbai dinner party conversations turn to the contemporary state of Indian literature today, most often it is lamented. “Where is the great Indian novel today?” participants often ask, disappointed with the recent commercialisation and popularisation of the novel form. Indeed, despite the new crops of prize-winning fiction, it is hard to find one recent novel that represents a contemporary paragon equal in status to the heavy hitters of the 1980s and 90s. But from the perspective of literary history, “greatness” is a term that should be looked at with nuance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607779514706-AMDPGBT7Q0DL66KHZIF9/hindi-1973909_1280.png Articles - “Indian Fiction: Why the English vs. Bhasha debate no longer makes sense” Early English fiction did not emerge in a distinct sphere of its own but rather in relation to and in dialogue with innovations in the bhashas that were taking place at the same time. Often, individual authors wrote in both English and one of the bhashas. Thus, less than a decade after publishing his one and only novel in English, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay founded a Bengali magazine, Bangadarshan, in which he hoped to invigorate the Bengali language in public life, where English had largely found sway. Likewise, Toru Dutt and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain wrote both in Bengali and English – and, in the case of Dutt, in French as well. These examples show how the modernity that emerged in India was always already polyglossic. Thus we not only dispel associations of foreignness attached to the nineteenth-century Anglophone novel in India but also see how an analysis of the English novel cannot be separated from accounts of colonial modernity across languages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1608157681191-NLPK1N1VJ0TC8OHJFB7Q/9780374174248.jpg Articles - “Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga: Two ways to write English in India” Adiga tells the story of the present, and Ghosh’s trilogy reads like a paean for a lost time. Adiga allegorises the future of the Indian novel, and Ghosh memorialises an Indian English whose time has come and gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1608666221548-1Y79MAM1THX7X050J2C8/index.jpg Articles - “‘Relationships which have no name: Family and sexuality in 1970s popular film” This essay argues that popular film of the 1970s opened up a space for representing new kinds of social relationships, but within and based on its use of melodramatic formulas. I argue that over the course of the long 1970s we see not radical rupture, but a process of repetition and resignification whereby generic formulas such as the lost-and-found plot and the love triangle were re-presented, and their constitutive elements rearranged, in order to generate alternatives to conventional kinship and romantic paradigms. It is in this indirect way that these films bring to light lived experiences of fraternity, love and desire at the margins of social legibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1608666681795-ROT4HRWM9MX54KE5GS7Y/51Fp8BFdkmL.jpg Articles - “Staging Realism and the Ambivalence of Nationalism in the Colonial Novel” The constant vacillation between referential and performative modes characterizes social realism in colonial India, with significant implications for the relationship between the novel and the nation. While realism has historically provided the crucial link between the novel and the nation—offering narrative structures suited to represent the linear temporality, the teleology, and the rationalism that undergird nationalist discourse—attention to the performative dimensions of literary realism unsettles this connection. If realism is not always and consistently linear, for instance, but veers into a performative mode that interrupts the narrative with the alternative register of synchronic time, then the novel cannot adequately provide the temporal structure necessary to narrate the nation into being. 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Ulka Anjaria categorizes post-2000 Indian literature and popular culture as constituting “the contemporary,” a movement defined by new and experimental forms—where high- and low-brow meet, and genres break down. Reading India Now studies the implications of this developing trend as both the right-wing resurges and marginalized voices find expression. Anjaria explores the fiction of Chetan Bhagat and Anuja Chauhan as well as Aamir Khan’s television talk show, Satyamev Jayate, plus the work of documentarian Paromita Vohra, to argue how different kinds of texts are involved in imagining new political futures for an India in transition. Contemporary literature and popular culture in India might seem artless and capitalistic, but it is precisely its openness to the world outside that allows these new works to offer significant insight into the experiences and sensibilities of contemporary India. https://www.ulkaanjaria.com/book-reviews daily 0.75 2022-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1634499210490-VA0VDWN9DN7W0DCA7KH6/41VSs9ChxkL._SX345_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Book Reviews Review of Love, War and Other Longings: Essays on Cinema in Pakistan How to engage with cinema simultaneously as a fan and a critic? This compelling book does exactly that, a much-needed respite from film criticism that sometimes becomes a joyless bludgeon. The editors, Vazira Zamindar and Asad Ali, have compiled a series of 11 eclectic engagements with contemporary Pakistani cinema that manage to offer significant insight and historical context while simultaneously engaging with those aspects of the cinema that touch the heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607712828239-SIMMZQ1HYGEHN29ADO7G/51hFXm8rtdL.jpg Book Reviews - Review of Nacohus, by Purushottam Agrawal Dreams and reality merge in this 2016 dystopian novel by the well-known Hindi satirist and writer Purushottam Agrawal. The novel begins when a crocodile leisurely walks down a small street and begins to chew on the leg of an elephant who happens to be lying there. No one seems to notice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607715377345-5Q6IK1CCQN6XWB5DWXDW/Slide1.jpg Book Reviews - “Indian Queer Futures” Review of Mohanaswamy by Vasudhendra and Murder in Mahim by Jerry Pinto There has been a flourishing of queer representations and texts in India today. This has included sex-positive websites like Agents of Ishq, e-zines such as Gaysi, graphic novels such as Kari (2008), and Bollywood films such as Aligarh (2016), along with a range of queer voices in fiction. Although some of these texts specifically address the continuing need to repeal Section 377, others have begun to consider the diversity of queer lives in the heterogeneous subcultures that constitute India today. These texts present queer formations across traditional divides of urban/rural and English/bhasha to offer new possibilities for queer representation in India beyond the legal domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607715709780-NUD7ELVCFG1F9CP778RD/Front.jpg Book Reviews - “Great Aspirations” Review of One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat Chetan Bhagat is possibly the most successful Indian English novelist ever, having sold over seven million copies of his books over a relatively short career. But he is largely unheard of in the West, part of a trend in Indian publishing that has seen the rise of numerous popular authors writing in English who make little effort to market themselves outside of India. Indian critics often see Bhagat’s popularity as a reflection of a recent rightward shift in public culture, marked by an embrace of Hindu nationalism and free-market capitalism. The fact that in interviews and op-eds Bhagat often espouses right-wing views bolsters this sense that his works represent a rejection of the secularism and cosmopolitanism of Nehru and his followers. Bhagat’s fiction also demonstrates significantly less artistry than Indian English novels by authors such as Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, and Jhumpa Lahiri that have gained international fame. But it is precisely for these reasons that Bhagat’s works appeal to a broad spectrum of readers in India’s expanding middle class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607716407061-SRN8PZNWI2MA49HH2VU4/51hzyZ1C-sL._SX333_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Book Reviews - “Pakistan’s Place in World Literature” Review of Mirages of the Mind by Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi There are international novels you read and feel fairly certain will circulate among book clubs and appear on display tables at trendy bookstores in the US. Mirages of the Mind, published in 1990 in Urdu as Aab-e-gum and now ably translated into English, is not one of those. The novel is intelligent, sarcastic, at times laugh-out-loud funny, and captures a certain sensibility in South Asian writing that is—to use an unpopular word—authentic. And yet, unfortunately, Yousufi’s work is unlikely to compel many American readers of international fiction. The plot is loose and episodic, the characters are rendered more with a satirical eye than an interest in complex psychology, and themes of exile, nostalgia, loss, and history—favorites of US readers of international fiction—are treated either tongue-in-cheek or ignored altogether. https://www.ulkaanjaria.com/media daily 0.75 2023-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/7c9020dd-d82f-4bca-a70c-42fd30e294ec/_128944740_rrr1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/f1cfd51e-d1c2-46fd-b4cf-9410fc0f9427/gettyimages-73301141_custom-b56fc9b0b0fc55359e8a32fa1e81ceebf0f2d563-s1100-c50.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/7a703e05-71c9-486f-bc0d-39bf07688f58/Untitled.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/b4355e44-320c-4139-8c07-781d6d570be0/7T0foJEyQdeEB1W9Sl1%25eQ_thumb_a04.jpg Media - Recall This Book podcast: Rajiv Mohabir in conversation with Ulka Anjaria and John Plotz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1625755303823-RKGQJKCR069LEYPAHDU7/Screen+Shot+2021-07-08+at+10.39.14+AM.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1616200874491-M7RQAAPWLWW79AKPO5CI/Screen+Shot+2021-03-19+at+8.36.56+PM.png Media https://www.ulkaanjaria.com/books daily 0.75 2020-12-11 https://www.ulkaanjaria.com/books/oxford-handbook-of-modern-indian-literatures monthly 0.5 2023-11-03 https://www.ulkaanjaria.com/books/realism-in-the-twentieth-century-indian-novel monthly 0.5 2020-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607709534616-3COUT2ESMZ28LSYNZF1V/realism+in+the+20th-c+indian+novel.jpg Books - Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel - Table of Contents Chapter 1 Realism in the Colony Chapter 2 The Contours of the Human Chapter 3 Experiments with Gandhi Chapter 4 Staging Realism and the Ambivalence of Nationalism Chapter 5 Aimless Bildung and the Longing for Form https://www.ulkaanjaria.com/books/reading-india-now monthly 0.5 2020-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607708319543-Z19QY23ZHCUX9J7WAUKW/Reading+India+Now.jpg Books - Reading India Now - Table of Contents Introduction: In Search of an Indian Contemporary Part I Locations Chapter 1 The New Provincialism Chapter 2 Writing the City Now Part II Publics Chapter 3 In Pursuit of the Common Man Chapter 4 Melodrama and the Open Edge of Politics Part III Representations Chapter 5 Literature Beyond the Pale Chapter 6: Inside and Out Afterword: Contemporaneity’s Futures https://www.ulkaanjaria.com/books/history-of-the-indian-novel-in-english monthly 0.5 2020-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607708942090-G5K8JXNOQ3VU1XRJRR3X/history.jpg Books - A History of the Indian Novel in English - Topics include: The early novel The progressive novel The Gandhian novel The modernist novel Partition and the novel Gender and the novel Translation Cosmopolitanism and the novel Realism and the novel Domesticity and the novel The urban novel The contemporary novel The graphic novel Caste and the novel … and more. https://www.ulkaanjaria.com/books/understanding-bollywood monthly 0.5 2020-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fce4c8556a976706ec6b2a1/1607707441521-775VONR7BHW88AJALN5H/Understanding+Bollywood+cover.jpg Books - Understanding Bollywood - Table of Contents Introduction Part I Chapter 1 Structure Chapter 2 Love Chapter 3 Song and dance Chapter 4 Visual style Chapter 5 Cinephilia Part II Chapter 6 Nationalism Chapter 7 Gender and sexuality Part III Chapter 8 The future of Bollywood