Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite
the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in …

To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers' voices
are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced …

Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu,
Onscreen/Offscreen is an exploration of the politics and being of filmic images. The book …

Whilst much has been written about the significance of caste in Tamil politics, there has
been less attention paid to the ways in which caste is played out in the cultural sphere. This …

by Sujith Kumar Parayil his paper analyses how collective unconscious memory plays a
dominant role in conceiving the subaltern1 and dalit2 bodies and its consciousness within …

Adding nuance to the accusation of sustained caste blindness against Indian cinema, this
article situates Nagraj Manjule's Marathi blockbuster Sairat (2016) within the trajectories of …

The aim of this paper is to explore how ethnic and linguistic identities intersect with national
identity in Indian cinema through a 'diasporic'reading of the film Nala Damayanti (2003) …

Pariyerum Perumal (God who mounts a horse) is a 2018 Tamil film directed by Mari
Selvaraj. The film is paradigmatic of the experiential reality of the Dalit community and their …

Abstract Situating Tamil Cinema interrogates contemporary Tamil cinema's relationship with
the shifting meanings of world cinema as an emergent organizing principle of film studies …

From the second-half of the twentieth century, a nascent Tamil cinema became increasingly
influential in Tamil society and more prominent in political life. The Dravidar Kazhagam …