Only the Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride: Bollywood and Western Cinephilia Darragh O’Donoghue May 2015 Bollywood Bombay cinema was my first film passion – starting with the Hindi film records our Indian neighbour constantly played when I was a child in late-1970s Dublin. Long before I was initiated into the mysteries of M...
Lights, Camera, Nation-State! Bollywood’s choreography of India’s national public consciousness Srishti Chatterjee May 2015 Bollywood Almost universally in the postcolonial world, the patriotic film genre is loved and makes money. Nationalism, indeed, is an entertainment favourite - featuring a gratuitous nostalgia of violence, a fervent love...
