Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Popular Cinema and the Slum's Eye View of Indian Politics - Ashis Nandy 2. Dilip Kumar Made Me Do It - Ziauddin Sardar 3. Raj Kapur: From Jis Mesh me Ganga Behti Hai to Ram Teri Ganaga Maili - Rajni Bakshi 4. How Angry is the Angry Young Man: 'Rebellion' in Conventional Hindi Cinema - Fareedudeen Kazmi 5. Official Television and Unofficial Fabrications of the Self: The Spectator as Subject - Anjali Monteiro 6. On Castes and Comedians: The Language of Power in Recent Tamil Cinema - K. Ravi Srinivas and Sundar Kaali 7. The Impossibility of the Outsider in the Modern Hindi Film - Vinay Lal

Promotional Information

To examine the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema is to study Indian modernity at its rawest. The questions and perspectives this book presents aim to provoke a thinking of cinema that is political in the widest sense.

About the Author

Ashis Nandy is an Indian political psychologist, a social theorist, and a contemporary cultural and political critic. A trained sociologist and clinical psychologist, his body of work covers a variety of topics, including public conscience, mass violence, and dialogues of civilizations. He was Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) for several years. Today, he is a Senior Honorary Fellow at the institute and apart from being the Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, also in New Delhi. Appearing on the list of the 2008 list of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll, Nandy had received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2007. In 2008 he was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals of the world by Foreign Policy magazine.