03360cam a2200289 4500 8424 20181127185910.0 140709s2014 ii 000 0 eng d 2014357913 0199450560 9780199450565 791.430954 23 Raghavendra, M. K., Essays. Selections The politics of Hindi cinema in the new millennium : Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian nation / M.K. Raghavendra. New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2014. xl, 264 pages ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Preface ; Introduction ; 1. The Global and the Pre-Modern ; Raaz (2002) ; 1. The Adulterous Woman ; Jism (2003) to Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (2006) ; 1. 'Undivided India' ; Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001) and Veer-Zara (2004) ; 1. The Youth Film as Dissent ; Rang de Basanti (2006) and the Political Class ; 1. The Agony Aunt and the Small Illegality ; Munna Bhai MBBS (2003) and Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) ; 1. Thieves like Us ; Enterprise in Bunty Aur Babli (2005), Dhoom 2 (2006), and Guru (2007) ; 1. The 'Hyperreal' and the Narrowing Nation ; Om Shanti Om (2007) ; 1. The Reservations of Middle-Class Concern ; Page 3 (2005), Corporate (2006), Traffic Signal (2007), and Fashion (2008) ; 1. Dystopia or Entrepreneurial Fantasy ; Kaminey (2009) ; 1. The Exemplary Citizen ; Education, Taare Zamin Par (2007) and Three Idiots (2009) ; 1. Politics and Enterprise ; Raajneeti (2010) ; 1. The Anthropological Gaze ; Agrarian Issues and Peepli (Live) (2010) ; 1. Resisting the Anglophone Nation ; Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) and Dabangg (2010) ; 1. Transactions ; Friendships in Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) ; 1. Sport and the Nation ; Iqbal (2005), Chak De India (2007) and Paan Singh Tomar (2012) ; Conclusion: Collapsing State, Dissolving Nation ; Index ; About the Author This book charts out a new direction in scholarship on Indian cinema. It argues that with mainstream Hindi cinema becoming 'Bollywood' and the diaspora becoming a key commercial factor, the constituency addressed by the mainstream Hindi film has significantly changed. Consequently, the audience for Hindi cinema has become more asymmetric. With the emergence of a new knowledge economy in the 1990s and Indian professionals traveling and settling abroad, a new 'Anglophone Indian Nation', the one with the greatest spending power, was born. Where mainstream Hindi cinema had been regarded as a pariah by the Indian state, the commercial success of Bollywood globally gave it immense respectability in the government. This work expresses the hope that understanding such an asymmetry will help us appreciate some of the alignments in India and the political forces which often masquerade as 'opinion'. Apart from bringing out the transformation of the mainstream Hindi film after it became 'Bollywood', the book provides fresh insights into political developments in India in the past decade outside cinema. Motion picture industry India. Motion pictures India. Motion pictures and language. Motion pictures, Hindi. 7283 7283 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 12893 0 791.4 RAG 30011500 2018-11-27 00:00:00 2018-11-27 MAIN