Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema

pt. I Cinema of Glamour and Celebration: The Post-liberalization Bollywood Auteur
1.Main Hoon Farah: The Choreographer as Auteur /​ Ajay Gehlawat
2.Mansoor Khan: Narrative and Aesthetic Impulses of a Director in `Self-exile' /​ Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
3.Farhan Akhtar: Stardom of the Poster Boy of `New' Hindi Cinema /​ Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
4.Aditya Chopra's `Glamorous Realism' /​ Manjunath Pendakur
5.Authorship, Industry and the Intermedial Relay: The Films of Vidhu Vinod Chopra /​ Sudhir Mahadevan
6.Rajkumar Hirani: The Outsider /​ Baradwaj Rangan
7.Sanjay Leela Bhansali: In the Realm of Innovative Cinematic Experiences /​ Varsha Panjwani

pt. II Cinema of Commentaries and Interventions: History, Politics and Society in Bollywood
8.In the Morbid Interregnum: Vishal Bhardwaj's Realist Aesthetic and the Neoliberal Imaginary /​ Soumik Pal
9.Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta's Feminist Quartet /​ Alka Kurian
Contents note continued: 10.Sounding Dystopia: Anurag Kashyap's Films and Relocation of Popular Tropes /​ Madhuja Mukherjee
11.Globalization, Reflexivity and Genre in Zoya Akhtar's Films /​ Nandana Bose
12.Urban Dreams: Sudhir Mishra's Representations of Social and Political Change /​ Clare Wilkinson
13.Ashutosh Gowariker: Narrativizing the `Nation' /​ Tutun Mukherjee
14.Madhur Bhandarkar and the New Bollywood Social /​ Ulka Anjaria

pt. III Gendered Cinema: Bollywood's Women, Gender Politics, and Representation
15.Finding Femininity: Homi Adajania and Representations of Urban Womanhood /​ Sharanya
16.Gender Politics and Small-town India: The Cinema of Abhishek Chaubey /​ Krupa Shandilya
17.Women in the Dark World: Sriram Raghavan and Hindi Film Noir /​ Swetha Sridhar
18.`There Is No Greater Joy than Telling a Story One Believes In'
- Our Brother Onir /​ Nandini Bhattacharya
19.Location and Agency in Crafting Habib Faisal's Authorship /​ Monika Mehta.