TY - BOOK AU - Kumar, Nirmal AU - Chaturvedi, Preeti TI - Brave new bollywood: in conversation with contemporary hindi filmmakers SN - 9789351500315 U1 - 791.4302 KUM-N PY - 2015/// CY - India PB - SAGE Publications KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures--Production and direction KW - India N1 - These are interesting times in the history of Indian cinema, particularly because the established aesthetic conventions and modes of production of the Hindi film industry are being challenged, as are the boundaries between what is alternative and what is mainstream. This book is an attempt to contextualize the upsurge in this form of cinema in Bollywood/Hindi film industry. It also aims to promote an academic enquiry into the works of these filmmakers, their religious beliefs, social moorings, cinematic influences, attitudes towards filmmaking and experiences of making movies. It will be an important reading for serious students of South Asian studies, film studies and media studies as well as the general reader who has an interest in cinema ER -