Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema

About the Book

About the Book
For those who think, read, teach, and write about Bollywood, this book is the release of the year!

They are the aEUR~starsaEUR(TM) who sit behind the camera and create magic between aEUR~ActionaEUR(TM) and aEUR~CutaEUR(TM). Meet the directors of New Age cinema who with their themes, characteristic styles, and masterful storytelling are bridging the gap between commerce and content, commercial and art-house cinema.

This book introduces you to the films they have made and provides a critical analysis of their craft, while remaining grounded in cinematic and popular culture theories. It shows the distinct ways in which they have handled issues of gender, urban culture, and social inequality.

About the Author

Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. Her interests include film studies, drama and popular culture. She has a PhD in American Drama, was the recipient of the Canadian Faculty Enrichment Programme fellowship in 2009 and was attached to Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. She has published over 30 articles in academic journals of repute, including Cambridge, Oxford, Routledge and SAGE. She edited Post liberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards (2013). She is the organizer of Imaging Cinema, a popular film workshop (2010aEUR"2012 and 2014) at IIT Madras.

Vimal Mohan John has a PhD in film studies from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. He was on an extended fellowship that was awarded to him by the department upon completion of his PhD. His work concerns study of the auteurial practices of film directors and how they mediate gender, cultures and representations. Apart from presenting papers at various national and international conferences, he also publishes academic papers. He teaches as Assistant Professor, Department of English, St. Berchmans College, Kottayam (Kerala).