February 2017 Academic & Specialist Edinburgh University Press

Bollywood and Postmodernism: Popular Indian Cinema in the 21st Century Neelam Sidhar Wright

Applying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has changed in the twenty-first century. Equipping readers with an alternative method of reading contemporary Indian cinema, Bollywood and Postmodernism exposes a new decade of aesthetic experimentation and textual appropriation in mainstream Bombay cinema.