Complicating Bollywood

Akshaya Kumar attempts to understand the interplay between Bhojpuri cinema, its language, symbols, the people it represents, and Hindi cinema

Provincializing Bollywood – Bhojpuri Cinema in the Comparative Media Crucible 

Author: Akshaya Kumar – Series editors – Adrian Athique, Vibodh Parthasarathi, S.V.Srinivas

Publisher: OUP

Pages:235

Price: Rs 1,496

Many of the books on Hindi and other Indian language cinemas are somewhat sneery of the subject. Across the English-speaking world of editors and writers I could name at least a dozen who write on Indian cinema but have no feeling, love or appreciation for it. They have not grown up watching the films that shaped entire generations. They watch them only to analyse them or trash them, not because they enjoy watching them. This is especially