Table of Contents

1. Studies in Bollywood Travels 2. Borders and Border Crossings in Main Hoon Na and Veer Zaara 3. Dance Baby Dance: Diaspora, Place and Aesthetics in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom 4. The Secret Politics Are Out? The Pleasures of Gender and Sexuality in Dostana 5. Haptic Urban Ethnoscapes and Bollywood Popular Cultures in the Diaspora 6. Performing Bollywood: Hindi Cinema Entertainment Shows 7. Conclusion

About the Author

Rajinder Dudrah is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Screen Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He has researched and published a large number of books on film, media and cultural studies.

Reviews

"Rajinder Dudrah's study stands out as an original work about the ways in which Bollywood, India's pre-eminent film industry, crosses boundaries, produces inter-connected global Indian diasporic cultures, and functions as the productive signifier of Indian modernity. Using analytically the metaphors of movement, journeying and border crossings the book persuasively advances a new theoretical framework with which to study this cinema" - Professor Vijay Mishra (Murdoch University, Australia), author of Bollywood Cinema and The Literature of the Indian Diaspora, both published by Routledge. "Bollywood Travels, consolidates Dudrah's position as an informed chronicler and commentator on a great global entertainment industry. Taking cue from the shaping analytical metaphor of 'travel', the text embarks upon, and accomplishes a deeply insightful journey to essay a multivalent, multi-layered, in-depth analysis of popular contemporary Indian cinema. In the process, Dudrah competently unravels and updates the complex dynamic that underlies the shifting, growing identity of Bollywood by placing it plumb in its aesthetic, ideological and socio- cultural matrix." - Dr Meenakshi Bharat, Reader in English, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India. "This book is lucidly written and is a highly engaging read about the circulations of Bollywood films, popular culture, and related media industries. Nobody does an innovative thesis on Bollywood like the Dudrah can. He is the SRK (Shahrukh Khan) of academia on the subject." - Mr Ammo Talwar MBE, Director of Punch Records (Birmingham, UK)