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Bollywood and Its Other(s) This page intentionally left blank Bollywood and Its Other(s) Towards New Configurations Edited by Vikrant Kishore University of Newcastle, Australia Amit Sarwal Deakin University, Australia and Parichay Patra Monash University, Australia Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra 2014 Individual chapters © Contributors 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-42649-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-49085-1 ISBN 978-1-137-42650-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137426505 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bollywood and its other(s) : towards new configurations / edited by Vikrant Kishore, University of Newcastle, Australia; Amit Sarwal, Deakin University, Australia; Parichay Patra, Monash University, Australia. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Motion picture industry—India—Mumbai. 2. Motion pictures, Hindi—India—Mumbai. I. Kishore, Vikrant, 1976– editor. II. Sarwal, Amit, 1981– editor. III. Patra, Parichay, 1985– editor. PN1993.5.I8B59255 2014 791.43'0954792—dc23 2014022070 Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. Contents List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra Section I Exploring the Other: Cinema, Aesthetics, Philosophy 1 Self, Other and Bollywood: The Evolution of the Hindi Film as a Site of Ambivalence 13 Dibyakusum Ray 2 Bombay Cinema’s Aesthetic Other: Hindi Shastriya Cinema in Retrospect 24 Parichay Patra Section II Diaspora and the Formation of the Global Bollywood 3 Transgressing the Moral Universe: Bollywood and the Terrain of the Representable 41 Sarah A. Joshi 4 A Perfect Match: Entertainment and Excess of Cricket within the Diasporic Experience of Bollywood 55 Sanchari De and Manas Ghosh Section III The Musicality of Bollywood: Possibilities of Alternative Reading(s) 5 Hindi Popular Cinema and Its Peripheries: Of Female Singers, Performances and the Presence/Absence of Suraiya 67 Madhuja Mukherjee 6 ‘Dil Dance Maare Re’: Bollywoodisation of the Indian Folk Dance Forms 86 Vikrant Kishore 7 The Systems Model of Creativity and Indian Film: A Study of Two Young Music Directors from Kerala, India 110 Phillip McIntyre, Bob Davis and Vikrant Kishore v vi Contents Section IV Bollywood’s Other(s): Sexuality, B Movie, Queerness 8 Sugar and Spice: The Golden Age of the Hindi Movie Vamps, 1960s–1970s 133 Suneeti Rekhari 9 Popular Forms, Altering Normativities: Queer Buddies in Contemporary Mainstream Hindi Cinema 146 Aneeta Rajendran 10 Hinglish Cinema: The Confluence of East and West 161 Prateek and Amit Sarwal 11 The Ramsay Chronicles: Non-normative Sexualities in Purana Mandir and Bandh Darwaza 174 Mithuraaj Dhusiya 12 Bollywood’s Encounters with the Third Kind: A Critical Catalogue of Hindi Science Fiction Films 186 Sami Ahmad Khan Section V Bollywood’s Other, India’s Other 13 Death Becomes Her: Bombay Cinema, Nation and Kashmir: In Conversation with the Desire Machine Collective, Guwahati 205 Kaushik Bhaumik Afterword 217 Anupam Sharma Index 222 Figure 7.1 Systems model of creativity according to Kerrigan (2013, p. 114) 113 vii Notes on Contributors Kaushik Bhaumik is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Unive rsity, New Delhi. A film historian who undertook his research on early cinema in India at the University of Oxford, he has published widely in journals and edited volumes on early cinema, bazaar arts and modern Indian art. He served as a research fellow at the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University, UK, and as the Senior Vice President at Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art and the Deputy Director of the Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. He co-edited Indian Cinema Book (2008) and, with Elizabeth Edwards, Visual Senses: A Cultural Reader (2009). His monograph on early Bombay cinema is forthcoming. He has recently guest edited the Marg special issue on the 100 years of Bombay cinema. Project Cinema/City, co-edited with Madhusree Datta and Rohan Shivkumar, has just been released. Bob Davis is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Creative Technology at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. His areas of interest include music for film, popular music, music analysis, electro-acoustic performance and music in education. Sanchari De is a doctoral student at the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, India, and a recipient of the prestigious CSDS- ICSSR fellowship for her research. She studied English Literature at the University of Calcutta and Film Studies at Jadavpur University. She has made presentations at international conferences/seminars/symposia in India, Singapore and United States. Her research interests include digital media, political mobilization and information aesthetics. Apart from that, she keenly studies films, specifically New Iranian Cinema. She has recently been selected by the Erasmus Mundus India to Europe (EMINTE) scholarship programme to undertake research as an exchange student at Lund University, Sweden. Mithuraaj Dhusiya teaches English Literature in the Department of English, Hans Raj College, University of Delhi, India. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD on Indian horror films at the University of Delhi. He has presented papers at several international and national confer- ences. He has published on snake-women in Indian horror cinema and viii Notes on Contributors ix reviewed a number of books on films; forthcoming publications include journal articles on sport and Indian films, Indian horror comedies and Marathi horror films. Manas Ghosh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has been awarded a PhD in the area of New Asian Cinema. He contributes regularly to the Journal of the Moving Image, and is Regional Coordinator (India) to the editorial board of Asian Cinema. Sarah A. Joshi teaches in the master’s programme on World Cinema at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has received her doctoral degree on popular Hindi cinema from the same institution. The title of her thesis is ‘The Diasporic Romance: The NRI Trope and Interracial Transgression in Popular Hindi Cinema’. Her current area of interest is the interaction and reverse synergies of Indian media across BRICS nations, including the implications of soft power. She has published widely in journals and edited volumes. Sami Ahmad Khan studied Literature at the University of Delhi. He then completed his master’s in English at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and went to the University of Iowa, USA, on a Fulbright grant. Currently he is a doctoral candidate at JNU, where he is working on Techno-culture Studies. He has engaged in film production, teaching, theatre and writing. His debut thriller ‘Red Jihad’ won the Muse India Young Writer (Runner-Up) Award at the Hyderabad Literary Festival and Excellence in Youth Fiction Writing award at Delhi World Book Fair 2013. He is now working on his second book. Vikrant Kishore is an alumnus of RMIT University (Melbourne), AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia and St Stephens College, Delhi University, India. He is an academic, filmmaker, journalist and a photographer. Currently based in Newcastle, Australia, Kishore is working at the University of Newcastle as Lecturer in Communication and Media Production and Course Coordinator (Music Video) in the BA of Communication. He completed his doctorate in ‘Bollywood Cinema and Dance’ from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in 2011. After the completion of his PhD, he worked as a researcher on the Australian Research Council funded project on ‘Mapping Lifestyle Television in Asia’ at RMIT University, Melbourne, under the leadership of Tania Lewis. He has more than 25 documentaries and corporate films to his credit, and his area of exper- tise are Bollywood films,

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