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A Anand, , 94 , 239 The Anatomy of National Aag, 28, 33 Fantasy:Hawthorne, Utopia, and Aaj Tak, 210 Everyday Life (Lauren Berlant), Aamir, 13 230n5 aayega aanewala melody, 121–2, see also Andaz, 47, 190–1 Mangeshkar, Lata Anjali, 91 Abachetan, 86n18 antinomies of culinary, 225–8 Abhishapta Chambal (The Accursed Apsara & Television Producers Chambal), 22 Guild Awards, 176n32 Abraham, John, 165, 173n3, 213 Apte, Shanta, 52–4 acousmetre, notion of, 134n21 Arabian Nights, 141 action , 165, 187, 192, 215, Aravindan, G, 244 231n25, 251n5 The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing action- of 1980s, 12 Cultural Memory in the Americas Actress, 140 (Diana Taylor), 40n26 Advani, Nikhil, 237 archiving , 218–21 ad world, film stars migration to, Arroyo, José, 258 97 Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory Agamavagisa, Krishnananda, 107, 109 (Alfred Gell), 37n10 Agneepath, 12, 172 Arundale, Rukmini, 144 , 208 Asoka, 173n3 Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, 210 Asperger’s syndrome, 93, see also My Ajnabee, 153 Name is Akhtar, Farhan, 166, 169, 208–9 Athaiya, Bhanu, 48 Akhtar, Zoya, 209, 230n11 Auro, 93, 97, see also Bachchan, Ali, Imtiaz, 222 Amitabh; Paa Allen, Richard, 246 Aurora, Malaika, 216 alternative, sources of, 242–46 , 255 always-graphic image, 25 Avatar, 266n1 Aman, Zeenat, 17n20, 23, 57–8, 152–4 avatars, 259–60 Amar Anthony, 193 Awara, 47 Amar Jyoti (The Immortal Flame), 141 Aya Toofan (The Typhoon), 144 American Idol, 185 An American in Paris, 220 B Amitabh: The Making of a Superstar baaghi (rebel), 29 (Susmita Dasgupta), 193 Babi, Parveen, 17n20, 152–3 , 218 Bachchan, Abhishek, 28, 59–60, 91, 215 Amrohi, Kamal, 13–14, 116, 118, 246 Bachchan, Amitabh, 3, 11, 22, 28, 33, analogical modulators, 26 37n2, 56, 91–2, 94–5, 158, 170, Anamika, 152 173n6, 174n15, 185, 192–4, 222 Anand, 7, 91, 93–6 Bachchan, Jaya, 22 Anand, Chetan, 150 baghi, 31 Anand, , 94, 153, 158, 190 Bahujan Samaj Party, 40n28

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Bakshi, Byomkesh, 67–8, 77, 79–83, see Bhosle, Asha, 158 also Kumar, Uttam; Ray, Satyajit Bhumika, 208 Balan, Vidya, 60, 64, 93 Bhuswarga Bhayankar (Peril in Paradise), Balwaan, 174n14 86n16 Bandh Darwaza, 8, 101–3, 105–6, 108, BigBoss TV show, 34, 173n6 111, 113 Big Brother, 173n6 bandhs, 41n33 Big Star Entertainment Awards, 176n32 Bandhyopadhya, Saradindu, 67 Billu, 181, 208 bandit king, 26–9 , 55 , 23 Biswas, Moinak, 13, 236–51 bandits Black, 91–3, 95 enduring, 29–33 black magic, within Tantras, 109 potentiality in politics, 35–7 Black Mountain, 101, 103, 108 Banerjee, Dibakar, 209, 237 Bobby, 154 Banerjee, Maya, 141 Bodyguard, 160 Banjarans, 146 body montages, 162–3, 165–8 Banu, Saira, 192 Bollywood cinema Barthes, Roland, 25, 205 archiving of, 218–21 Barua, P.C., 190 consolidation of Bollywood model, Basu, Anustup, 9–10, 139–54, 262 206 Basu, Bipasha, 113 contemporary capitalist processes, 239 Basu Thakur, Gautam, 6 craze for rare disease films, 92 Baudrillard, Jean, 186, 214 desire for indexes, 207–8 Baxi, Upendra, 35 figurative energy, 14–15 Bayly, C.A., 58 figuring out new, 11–15 BBC Channel Four, 23 global viewership, 253 Bedi, Rajinder Singh, 96 institutional/industrial Bees Saal Baad, 8, 101, 117, 126–8, reorganizations, 207 133n11, 134n37, 221 masala, 14 Bend it Like Beckham, 253 Moulin Rouge! (see Moulin Rouge!) Benegal, Shyam, 13, 244 narcissism, 206 Benjamin, Walter, 186 novum, 228–9 Berkeley, Bugsby, 263 phenomenologizing, 212–21 Bhadhuri, Tarun, 22–3, 31 political economic considerations Bhaduri, Jaya, 23 interlacing with, 211 Bhaduri, Reeta, 23 stars, 11 Bhagwaan Dada, 168 Bombaiwali, 143 Bhakta Vidur (Saint Vidur), 49 cinema industry, 3, 229 Bhansali, Sanjay Leela, 91–2, 98, 170, erotic perception of male body in, 165 173n3, 175n26 fundamental alteration of, 47 Bharadwaj, Vishal, 13, 23, 38n8, 209, Hrithik effect on, 159 245 importance in, 5 Bharti, Divya, 174n14 mediated stars in, 11 Bhaskar, Ira, 246 musclemen of, 161 Bhatkande, V. N., 144 romance with gothic, 117 Bhatt, Mahesh, 152 star body in contemporary, 158 Bhave, Acharya Vinoba, 22, 31, 35, tropes , 132n4 40n22 , 212 Bhoodan, 40n22 , 140, 144 Bhoot, 112 Bonolokhhi teeth case, 80–1 Index 281

Bose, Nandana, 10–11, 158–72 Chatterjee, Soumitro, 91 Boyle, Danny, 14 Chattopadyay, Bankimchandra, 30 Brahmo Samaj, 110 Chetan Shyakra, 86n18 Brecht, Bertolt, 207, 224, 227 Chetna, 150, 153 Brenez, Nicole, 16n9 China: A Century of Revolution, 71 Brhat Tantrasara, 109 China Gate, 14, 264 Bride and Prejudice, 253 Chintu baba, see Kapoor, Rishi Britannia Glucose D biscuits, 37n1 Chion, Michel, 122 British Hammer films, 103 Chiriakhana (The Zoo), 6, 67, 74–5 Brojodas, Saradindu, 77 Chokher Bali, 75 Brooke, Arthur, 256 Chopra, Aditya, 209, 244 Brook, Peter, 259 Chopra, B.R., 153 Brosius, Christine, 37n2 Chopra, Prem, 131 Brosius, Melissa, 37n2 Chopra, Priyanka, 62 Bruno, Giuliana, 242 Chopra, Raj, 167 Byomkesh, Saradindu, 7, 68, 70, 74, Chopra, , 153 76–8, 80–4 Chow, Rey, 228 chudails (witches), 102 C Cinema Girl, 140 Cancer awareness campaign, by cinema, Indian, generlization of, 4 filmstars, 97 cinema of attractions, concept of, Caravan, 152 172n1 Casanova Theater, 220 cinematic erotics, of male body, 166 celebrity, in contemporary media cinematic identifications, in politics, culture, 180 40n27 Celebrity Studies journal, 200n2 cinematic woman on-screen, 142 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 5, 16n12 cinematic women, in Hindi films, 262 Chakravarty, Sumita S., 11–12, 179–99 Citizen Kane, 220 Chakravorty, Mithun, 174n15 , 51 Chambal: The Valley of Terror (1972), 23 classical Sanskrit hermeneutics, structure Chambal Valley, 22–3, 29, see also of, 222 clothes, stealing of audience’s journey infection of New , 36 into cinematic landscape, 46 looting treasure from Scindia College Girl, 140 government, 30 commodity production, 241 national embarrassment, 31 Company, 33, 208 padyatra (mission on foot) in, 31 congealed labour, 171 women dacoits emergence in, 31 contemporary Bollywood, 224, 231n17, “” song, in China 261 Gate, 14, 264–5 contemporary capitalism, nature of, Chandidas, 189 238 Chandralekha, 219 contemporary communication, 214 Chandra, Sarat, 192 contemporary Hindi/Indian cinema, 13, Chandravarkar, Leena, 219 92, 211, 239,242–44 Chaplin, Charlie, 192 display of generic definition, 261 charkhas, 50, 52 effect on international cinema, 254 Charulata, 70 contemporary multiplex tantric, 113 Chashme Buddoor, 17n23 Coolie, 192 Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra, 192 corruption, 48–9, 54–8, see also Khadi Chatterjee, Sarat Chandra, 193, 246 Cosmopolitan Picture, 142 282 Index costumes, 46 dharna, 41n33 distinction between dress and, 48 Dhobi Ghat, 13 drama, 45 : Back in Action, 160, 162–3, (OSO)’s fetishization 169–70, 172, 175n30 of, 47 Dhrupad, 243 Rangeela, 47 Dhund, 153 Crash, 98 diagrammatic forms, 26 criminal anomaly, Phoolan Devi as, Diamond Queen, 141 36–7 Diana Taylor notes (DNA), 32, 40n26 cross-dressing, 174n15 of cultural memory, 219–21, 229 Cruise, Tom, 179 of motherhood, 220 Cyborg Manifesto, 17n26 Taylor’s notion of, 220–21 Cyril, Sabu, 220 DiCaprio, Leonardo, 256 , 208, 211, 236 D Diler Jigar (Gallant Hearts), 141 , 12, 160 Dil Se, 45, 216 Daera, 14, 246–51 , 195, 197 Daku Hasina, 23 Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, 195, 244 dakus (bandit/dacoit), 4–5, 29–31 direct action, neo-Gandhian modes of, Damme, Claude Van, 161 41n33 “Dard-e-disco,” in OSO, Dixit, Madhuri, 173n6, 176n32 173, 213, 216, 222 , 119 Darna Zaroori Hai, 208 Dorson, Richard, 105 Dasgupta, Buddhadeb, 244 Dracula story, 101, see also Bandh Dastak, 153 Darwaza Dayal, Shekhar, 94 Dramatic Transformation Principle deacousmatization, 131 (DTP), 160 Debray, Regis, 183–5 Draupadi of , molestation Deccan Queen, 141 of, 29, 58 Deewar, 37n2, 56, 153, 192 Dream Girl, 46, 55, 215 Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor DreamWorks, 207 of the Negative (Michael Taussig), Dreamy Girl, 215 38n11 dress Deleuze, Gilles, 25–6, 242 costumes and, distinction between, 48 Delhi 6, 13 reform, 50 Delhi Belly, 13, 236–9 Dr. Madhurika, 140–1 Deol, Sunny, 158 Duniya Na Mane (The Unexpected), 52–4 Desai, Gurukant, 59, see also Bachchan, Duplicate, 181 Abhishek; Dutt, Guru, 149, 246, 249 Desai, Manmohan, 229 Dutt, Sanjay, 16n2, 158, 160, 174n14 Desi Boyz, 173n3 Dutt, Sunil, 218 , 96, 99, 191 Dyer, Richard, 11 Devgn, Ajay, 159, 174n15 Devi, 70 E Devi Chaudhurani (Bankimchandra East Asian horror cinema, 127 Chattopadyay), 30 Eastwood, Clint, 180 Devi, Mahasweta, 82 Educated Wife, 140 D film, 33 electoral democracy, 35–6, see also Dharam Veer, 219 Phoolan Devi , 174n15, 194 elephant-taming, in , 163 Index 283

Elippathayam, 244 iconic possibilities harnessed by, 9 Elvis Presley of , 159, see also positioned to control hierarchies, 48 Kapoor, Shammi problematic of figuration, 9 Emergency (1975–77), in India, 22, relevance in arena of parliamentary 37n2, 55–7, 94, 124, 152 politics, 9 Ethan character of , in Guzaarish, setting of fashion trends, 47 167–8, 172 Five Year Plan (FYP) hero, 123–6, 128–9 Euro-American film theory, 2 , 162, 175n30 euthanasia plea, by Roshan in Guzaarish, food crop production, success during 92, 99 Great Leap Forward, 70–1 , 208, see also Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation Akhtar, Farhan (Gilles Deleuze), 25 Frankfurt School, 184 F The Future of an Illusion, 85n10 Facebook, 181 Factory, 208 G fakelore, 105 “Gabbar ki asli pasand,” television ad Fashionable Wife, 140 for Britannia biscuits, 21 Fateh, 174n14 Gamdeni Gori (Village Girl), 142–3 female bandits, working in Chambal Gandhian patrimony, 144 Valley, 40n28 , Indira, 31, 95 female figurations, 259, 262, see also Gandhi, Mahatma, 32, 40n22, 49, 51–2, Moulin Rouge! 57–8, 63–4 female ghosts, 130, 133n11 Garbo, 180 female stardom, 155n3, 200n3 Garland, Judy, 180 female stars, meticulous archival study Geethanjali, 91 of 1930s and 1940s, 158 Gehrayee, 101 feminine, in Indian cinema generic mutations, 6–9 body of, 140 Gentleman Prefer Blondes, 263 woman-in-public in pre- geocultural unconscious, Bollywood, independence, 140–4 223–4 feudal family romance, 144 gestures, 221–4 feudal foreclosure, of sex relation, 154 Ghai, Subhas, 215 feudal haveli, 119, 128–9 Ghajini, 13, 92, 173n3, 240 Feuer, Jane, 226 Ghatak, Ritwik, 4, 16n16, 221 fiendish tantrics, 109–10 gherao, 41n33 figural, notion of, 1, 3 Ghosh, Bishnupriya, 4–5, 21–37 figure of Bollywood ghosts emergence of, 11–12 love in time of, 127–9 award, 176n32, 198, 215, 223 voices, 121–7 filmic folklore, 113 Ghost World, 253 definition of, 105–7 Girlfriend, 174n14 offers lenses to interpret past, 105 global folklore, 103, 113 in Ramsay film, 102 Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular, 24 , 140, 144 Global Indian Film & Television Awards, Film Kraft company, 165 176n32 film’s publicity pamphlet, 143 globalization and designer , 58–64 film stars, Indian, 158 Gods in the Bazaar, 24 analysis of, 171 God Tussi Great Ho, 16n2 denizens of Bollywood firmament, 10 Golap Colony, 75–6, 85n15 284 Index

Google Earth, 25 Hindu revivalists, 111 Gopalakrishnan, Adoor, 13, 244 Times, 221 Gothic film, Hindi, 8–9, 14 historical history, 259 Bombay cinema romance with, 117 Hobsbawn, Eric, 29 elements of, 116–17 Hollywood/Bollywood, 216 ghost film, 119 Hollywood cinema, 14, 92 regendering of, 129–32 absorption of national iconography, 15 relationship with horror films, 118 labor-intensive art form, 171–2 , 217 model of stardom, 9 GQ magazine, 168–9 musicals, 46 Great Leap Forward, 70 quasi- from, 2 Grosz, Elizabeth, 25–6 Hollywood Movies, Luhrmann’s interview Guddi, 13, 208 with, 261 Guha, Ranajit, 30 Holmes, Sherlock, 74 Gulaal, 209 Hood, Robin, 33 Gul-e-Bakavali (The Story of Bakavali), horror films in Hindi 141 by Ramsay brothers, 8 Gumnaam, 147 trishul (Shiva’s trident) use in films, Gunasundari/Why Husbands Go Astray, 104 140 religious iconography in, 103–4 Gunga Jumna, 146 The Hound of the Baskervilles (Conan Guru, 58–60, 64 Doyle), 126 Guzaarish, 91–2, 99, 164, 167–70, 172, Howrah Bridge, 146 175n26, 175n30, 176n32 Hum Aapke Hain Koun!, 219 Humjoli, 219 H hunger strikes, 41n33 The Hangover, 161 Hunterwali, 141 Hanste Zakham, 150, 153 Hurricane Hansa, 141 Haraway, Donna, 17n26 Hare Hare , 153 haunted havelis (mansions), 103 iconoclasm, 24 haunted hero, figuring of, 120–1 iconophilia, 24 havelis (mansions), 103, 127 Ideology of the Hindi Film (Madhava Hawa, 101 Prasad), 105 Hawa Mahal (Wind Palace), 144 , 7, 99, 236 Heavenly Bodies: Stars and Society , 208, 212 (Richard Dyer), 171 Imaan Dharam, 152 Hedge, Ganesh, 173n6 Image, Icon, Economy: the Byzantine , 9–10, 17n20, 124 Origins of the Contemporary and Hindi feudal family romance, Imaginary (Marie-José Mondzain), 144–52 39n16 oriental looks of, 143 Imperial Film Studios, 62 unacknowledged daughters, 152–4 incorporative technology, 26 Hero Hiralal, 208 India: Definitive Images, 1858 to Present , 58 (Prashant Panjiar), 40n25 Hindi Action Cinema: Industries, Indian Censor Board, 37n3 Narratives, Bodies (Valentina Indian cinema, see Bollywood cinema Vitali), 173n2 Indian Emergency (1975–77), 22 Hindi commercial cinema, 10, 12, 15, Indianness, notion of, 106, see also 116–17, 120, 126, 128 Bandh Darwaza Index 285

India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Kal Ho Na Ho, 237 Politics in an Era of Economic ka¯mini, 148 Reform (Leela Fernandes), 41n35 Kamini, in Mahal, 116, 120–3, 126–8, Indira MA, 140 130–3 industrial reflexivity, 207–12 Kanchenjunga, 70 Inspector, 146 Kant, Immanuel, 150–1 international cosmopolitanism, 256 Kapadia, Dimple, 158 International Indian Film Academy Kapoor, Ayesha, 92 (IIFA) 2009, 159, 176n32 Kapoor, Om, 198, 212, 222 The Interpretation of Dreams, 71 Kapoor, Prithviraj, 190 An Introduction to Buddhist Esotericism Kapoor, Raj, 57–8, 119, 145, 154, 159, (Benyotosh Bhattacharya), 109 164, 181, 190, 220, 229 Ishaan, 93, see also Safary, Darsheel; Kapoor, Ranbir, 173n3, 230n12 Kapoor, Rishi, 44, 217 Ishra, Krishna, 33–4 Kapoor, Shahid, 213 Islamicate, 246 Kapoor, Shammi, 153, 158–60, 164–6, The Italian (Ann Radcliff), 135n39 172, 173n4, 174n21 item girl concept, 213 Kapoor, Shashi, 57 item numbers, as homoerotic spectacle, Kapse, Anupama, 44–64 165–8 Kapur, Shekhar, 23–4, 32, 34 Iyer, Usha, 8, 101–14 , 174n14 Izzat, 133n15 , 92 Karz, 44, 215, 217, 221 J Kasbekar, Asha, 261–2 Jaane Tu … Ya Jaane Na, 210 Kashyap, Anurag, 209, 237–8, 251n3 Jadu Tona, 101 (The Severed Kite), 54–5 Jain, Kajri, 24, 38n2, 38n12 Kaul, Mani, 13, 242–3 Jai Santoshi Ma, 7 , 173n6 Jai Vijay, 218 Keller, Helen, 92 Jalsaghar, 70, see also Roy, Biswambar khaddar cap, 49–50 Jameson, Fredric, 238 Khadi, 54–8 Jana Aranya, 70 association with corruption, 48–9 Jayashree T., 218 cinema’s exploitation of, 50–1 Jay, Martin, 186 contribution of, 50 , 218–19 displacement of English , 173n6 manufacturers outfits, 49 Jism, 210 emergence as emblematic site for Jodhaa Akbar, 162–3, 170, 172n1 cinema, 5 Johar, Karan, 12, 45, 47, 91, 93, 209, existence in Indian public life, 48 212, 237 Indian men dress, 50 Junglee, 149 provides Bombay cinema with Just Dance, reality TV show, 160, 173n6 melodramatic shorthand, 5 tours and magic lantern exhibitions, K 50 Kabir, Nasreen Munni, 181 women participation in promotion, Kabli Khan, 144 52 Kagaaz ke Phool, 208 Khamoshi, 91–2, 99 Kahani Phoolvati Ki, 23 Khan, Aamir, 13, 91, 93, 95, 99, 173n3, Kaho Na … Pyar Hai, 159, 166–7 174n15, 230n11, 236, 240 Kajri, 144 Khan, Amjad, 5, 22–3 286 Index

Khan, Farah, 45, 213, 216, 220–21 Kumar, Manoj, 124, 152–3, 232n26 Khanna, Rajesh, 51, 218 Kumar, Shanti, 253 Khan, Rizwan, 98 Kumar, Uttam, 6, 67 Khan, Saif Ali, 212 Khan, Salman, 158–61, 173n6, 174n14, L 221 Lacan, Jacques, 67, 71–3, 75, 84n1, Khan, Shah Rukh (SRK), 11–12, 17n22, 85n11 44–5, 91, 93, 97, 169, 173n3, Laclau, Ernesto, 25 173n6, 174n19, 179, 212–13, Lage Raho (LRMB), 61–2 see also Om Shanti Om (OSO) Lahu Ke Do Rang, 152 collaboration between Farah and, 216 Lajmi, Lalita, 98 conferences on stardom aspects of, Lakshminarayana, N., 91 158 Lalwani, Vijay, 92 con-figuration of, 182 Light (Himansu Rai), 51 fantasy of social mobility, 214 The Light of Asia (Himansu Rai), 44 and networked body, 194–6 Lim, Bliss Cua, 127 performances stretch, 181 literary history, 259 story of, 179 Lloyd-Webber, Andrew, 212 twins swap positions in Duplicate, 181 Lord Krishna, miracles in OMG film, 1–2 Kher, Kiron, 12, 220 , 166, 169, 175n23, Khooni Tantrik, 101 175n30, 208, 210 Khote, Durga, 141, 220 Luhrmann, Baz, 14, 254–6, 259 Khudai, 149 Kidman, Nicole, 256, 263 M Kinder, Marsha, 258, 266n2 Macbeth, 245 kiss absence, in Hindi films, 144–5 Madam Fashion, 140 Kites, 161, 164, 172 , 116, 134n19, 141 “Kitne adami the?” (How many men were , 133n8, 193, 221 there?) dialogue, in , 21, Madhuri, 141 37n5 , 258, 263 Kodiyattam, 244 Cinema, 251n4 Kohinoor Film Company’s, 142 Madurai Extreme, 251n4 Kohra, 133n8 Mahagonny, 225–6 Koi Mil Gaya, 168, 174n21 mahahani karana (causing great ruin), Knight Riders, 181 109 Koppikar, Isha, 174n14 Mahal, 8, 14, 111, 116–19, 121–2, Koshish, 91 125–8, 130, 132, 133n9, 134n30, , 165 135n41, 221 , 159, 162–3, 166, 170, 172, , 70 174n21 Mahmood, Talat, 246 Krrish 2, 173n5, 174n21 , 216 Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, 237 Main Banna Chahti Hoon!, Kulkarni, Mamta, 174n14 208 Kulkarni, Sonali, 212 Majumdar, Sushil, 74, see also Sen, Kumar, Akshay, 1, 158–60, 165, 173n3, Nishanath 215 Makhija, Om, 212 Kumar, Ashok, 116, 120 male stardom, 45 Kumar, Dilip, 11, 96, 185, 190–2, 195, Malhotra, Manish, 45, 47, 62 199 Malhotra, Punit, 212 Kumari, Meena, 55, 141, 158, 246 Malini, Hema, 55, 215–16 Index 287

Mangeshkar, Lata, 55, 118, 121–7, Modern Times, 192 134n23, 158, 173n6 Mohabbat Man, 216, 223 Manoranjan, 153 Mojili (The Slaves of Luxury), 143 Mao Monroe, Marilyn, 180, 263 Chinese farmers’ seeds collection for, Monsoon Wedding, 45 70–1 moral fiber, of nation, 48–54 gestural demand by farmers to, 72 Morgan, David, 24 , 245–6 Mori, Barbara, 175n25 marana (killing), 109 Moses and Monotheism, 85n10 Martin, Adrian, 16n9 (1957), 46, 139 Martin, Catherine, 255 Mother India (Bharat Mata), 46, 139 Marx, Karl, 171 Mother India (book) (Katherine Mayo), masculinity, concept of, 158, 164 38n4 masquerade, 161–5 , 190 Massumi, Brian, 25 Moulin Rouge!, 14, 254–62, 265–6, 267n3 Mast, 208 movie buffs, 22 “Material Girl” video, of Madonna, 264 Mr. Natwarlal, 48 Matondkar, Urmila, 47 MTV, 254, 258, 263 Mayawati, 40n28 Mughal-e-Azam, 217 Mayo, Katherine, 38n4 Mukerjee, Hrishikesh, 193 McGregor, Ewan, 256 Mukherjee, Hrishikesh, 13, 91, 96 McNally, Michelle, 92 Mukherjee, Rani, 64, 91–2 media convergence, 11, 15, 195, 200n2 Mukherjee, Sabyasachi, 63–4 mediation process, 183 Mulchandani, Sanjiv, 45 Media Worlds: Anthropology on New multiplex film, 237–8 Terrain (Brian Larkin), 39n12 Mulvey, Laura, 54 medium theory, 199n1 Mumbai Ni Mohini (Social Pirates/Night “Meera Joota hai Japani” iconic song, Side of Bombay), 143 from Shri 420, 164 , 218 Mehboob Studios, 45, 220 Munshi, K. M., 144, 192 Mehra, Prakash, 229 Muqaddar ka Sikander, 193 Mehra, Rakeysh Omprakash, 230n11 Murugadoss, A. R., 92 Mehta, Deepa, 216 Muslim social film, 245–6 Memento, 240 mutable masculinity, 158, see also Men’s Health magazine, 160, 173n5 Kapoor, Shammi Mera Saaya, 133n5 mute forms of knowledge, 114 Meri Awaaz Suno, 153 , 7, 91, 93, 96–7, metaphysics of star body, 180–2 see also Khan, Rizwan; Khan, Shah metropolitan multiplex, 237 Rukh (SRK) MGR, Southern Indian star, 40n27 The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Radcliff), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 259, 261 135n39 Mili, 7, 91, 94, 96, see also Dayal, Mythologies (Roland Barthes), 230n3 Shekhar Minu, 60, see also Balan, Vidya; Guru N Miss 1933, 140 , 208 Miss Frontier Mail, 141 Naandi, 91 Mission Girl, 143 Nadia, 158 modern rationalistic , 111 Naidu, Sarojini, 50 “The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre” naina barse rimjhim rimjhim song, by essay, by Bertolt Brecht, 224 Lata Mangeshkhar, 124–5, 128 288 Index

Na Jaon Saiyan, 149 Other, in Ray’s films, 68–70 Namak Hallal, 153 overvaluation of bodies, 13 Namak Haram, 96 Nandy, Ashis, 4, 16n10 P Naqaab, 133n5 Paa, 7, 91, 93, 96–7 Narayanan, K.R., 28 Paapi No Fej (The Debt of Sin), 142 Narayan, Jayaprash, 31, 35 Padoux, André, 107 , 55, 141, 158 Padukone, Deepika, 218 naturalism, 224, 238, 241–2 padyatra (mission on foot), in Chambal NDTV, 210 Valley, 31 Neel Kamal, 133n5 Page 3, 208 “Nehru coat,” 50 Pagla Kahin Ka, 147 Nehru, Jawahar Lal, 50 paigam, 247, 249–50 Nevla, a tantric dracula, 101, 103, 106, Pakeezah, 14 113, see also Bandh Darwaza Paluskar, V. D., 144 New Age spiritual guru, tantric as, 112 Paranjpye, Sai, 91 New Wave, 229, 243–4 Paranjpye, Shakuntala, 52–4 Nijhawan, Amita, 266 Parekh, Asha, 55, 64 Nikumbh, 95, see also Khan, Aamir; , 239–40 Taare Zameen Par Patang (The Severed Kite), 54 Nolan, Christopher, 240 Pathak, Dina, 53 non-Hindi-language film, 6 Pather Panchali, 69–70, 191 No Smoking, 238 Patil, Smita, 158 NRI films, 254 patriarchal monopoly, of sexual NTR, Southern Indian star, 40n27 pleasure, 145 , 141 Pawar, Lalita, 141 Pearce, Craig, 255 O Peepli (Live), 208, 210, 230n13 obscenity, 214, 224 Peirce, Charles Sanders, 25–6 OMG: Oh My God, 1–2 Peterson, Mark Allen, 103 Omkara, 23, 38n8 The Phantom of the Opera, 46, 221 Om Shanti Om (OSO), 11–12, 44, 57, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, 208, 210, 173n3, 181, 194, 196, 208, 210, 230n13 213, 221, 225–6, 229, see also Phoolan Devi, 5, 22–4, 27, 29, 31–4 Khan, Shah Rukh (SRK) as criminal anomaly, 36 celebrates civilizational notions of entry into politics, 35–7 femininity and romance even, external adversary, 35 215 violent death of, 37 customs designers, 45 Phoolan Devi Biraha, 32, 40n23 fetishization of costumes, 47 , 112 glossy costume drama, 46 physical energy, India stages memory of filmy motherhood in, 220 expenditure of, 237 mock voice-of-god, 46 physics of star body, 180–2 opening sequence on Karz sets, 217 Pikoor Diary, 70 stardom reflexivity, 196–8 The Pirate, 46, 219 Ong, Walter, 186 Pitt, Brad, 179 ontology of the image, 185 political figures, of cinema, 4–6 ordinary bodies on-screen, proliferation popular religiosity, 24 of, 238 postcolonial Gothic film, 132 Othello, 38n8 Prabhat film company, 52 Index 289

Prakash, Om, 168 rare disease films, 7, 91–3, 99 Prasad, M. Madava, 7, 16n10, 32, 40n27, Rathnam, Mani, 28, 60, 91, 93, 240 91–100, 144–5, 253–4 Rawal, Paresh, 1 pre-cybernetic machines, 17n26 Ray, Satyajit, 6, 23, 67–70, 73, 76, 81, Premchand, 192 84n8, 91, 191 Prem Shastra, 153 Red Chillies Entertainments Pvt. Ltd., Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms 208, 218, see also Khan, Shah of Social Movement in the 19th and Rukh (SRK) 20th centuries (Eric Hobsbawm), reflexivity, in Bollywood films, 12 39n17 Rehman, Waheeda, 141 processions, 41n33 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, 221 product differentiation, 238 , 198 Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity Reliance, 207 and Critical Practice in Film and remake, of earlier films, 17n23 Television (John Caldwell), 230n6 Renigunta, 239–40 public women, of seventies, 152–4 Rifle Girl, 140 Pudhupettai, 239 RK studios, 45 pumped-up physique, of heros, 161 Rocket Singh, Salesman, 209 Purana Mandir, 104–6, 108 Rocky IV, 162 Puran Bhagat, 189 Romeo + Juliet, 255–6 purdah, 142 Roshan, Hrithik, 10–11, 91, 213 Puri, Mayur, 217 bare upper torso, 160 Putlibai, bandit queen, 23, 32 character transformation as Pyaasa (Thirst), 53, 96, 149–50, 246, 249 transfiguration theme, 161 discovery of dancing talent, 158–9 Q extreme close-up shots of body, 167 Quick Gun Murugan, 216, 231n25 as homoerotic spectacles, 166 Qu’ran, 24 as Jallaluddin Akbar in , 162 R views on, 173n7 , 28 manufacturing of stardom, 168–72 Raaz 3, 101 mutable body sports, 164 , 181, 208 on-screen bodily perfection, 175n28 Rai, Aishwarya, 59, 163 physicality of, 159–60 Rai, Himansu, 64 practicing one-hour speech therapy Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, 16n10, 267n4 daily, 175n29 (D. G. Phalke), 1 spending hours imitating Kapoor’s Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder, 34 moves as a child, 159 Raj, Ashok, 191 star persona and body global brand, Rakhee, 220 158 Ramayana, 28 of India’s Most Desirable Ramsay, Shyam, 101, 103–4, 111 Person of 2010, 174n17 Ramsay, Tulsi, 101, 104, 111 traditional representations of male , 58 corporeality in cinema, 160 Rancho, 99, see also 3 Idiots; Khan, and Facebook messages for Aamir fans, 175n30 , 210, 230n13, 231n14 visit of gym, 161 Rangeela (The Colorful), 47, 208, 219 Winner of IIFA 2009, 159 Rao, Kiran, 209 Roshan, Rakesh, 161 Ra. One, 11, 182 Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, 153 290 Index

Roy, Ashok, 23 Sen, Mrinal, 4 Roy, Bimal, 96, 119 Sen, Nishanath, 74–9 Roy, Biswambar, 70 sensate icon, 24–6 Roy, Nirupa, 56, 64, 220 Sethi, P. C., 31 Roy, Rammohun, 110 Seva Samaj (Service Limited), 141 Roy’s Do sex prohibition, in Hindi cinema, 145 Rudraksh, 112 Shaan, 153 Rustamji, K. K., 31 shadow cities, 41n36 shadow swordplay, in Jodhaa Akbar, 163 S Shahani, Kumar, 13, 243 , 173n3 Shaitani Ilaaka, 101 Sachcha Jhutha, 218 Shaitan Tantrik, 101 The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture Shakespeare, 245, 256 in Theory and Practice (David Shakha Proshakha, 69–70, 91 Morgan), 38n10 Shakti group of industries, 60, see also Sadhana, 124–5 Bachchan, Abhishek; Guru Safary, Darsheel, 93 Shankar, , 116, 120, 122, 126, Saheb Bibi Aur Gulam, 149, 249 130–2, 134n30, see also Kumar, Sahni, Surinder, 181 Ashok Saigal, K. L., 11, 188–90, 199 Shankar, Sondeep, 32 Sajid, Nida, 16n1 Shantaram, V., 52 Sakta school of Tantra, 107 Shantipriya, character in OSO, 218, salt campaign (1931), see also Padukone, Deepika Gandhi’s, 52 Sharda, 145 Sampoorna Ramayana, 146 Sharma, Pyarelal Ramprasad, 219 Samri, 104, see also Bandh Darwaza Shetty, Sunil, 113, 160, 174n14 Sangam, 145 Shikar, 133n15 Sangam Bhavan, 116, 120, 130 Shklovsky, Viktor, 224 Films’, 143 Sholay, 5, 21–3, 28, 33, 146, 194 , 33 shraaps (curses), 103 Sarkar, Bhaskar, 12, 205–29 , 119, 164 Satah Se Uthata Aadmi, 243 Shyam, Tulsi, 101 Satanic Verses, 38n4 Siddhewsari, 243 Sathya, 33 Singapore, 146 Sati, 139 Singh, Arjun, 32 Satranj ke Khiladi, 70 Singh, Dara, 158, 173n2 Satya, 13, 241 Singh, Gabbar, 21–3, 37n1, 38n5 satyagraha, 41n33 Singh, Lal, 74, 76–9 Satyam Shivam Sundaram, 57–8, 154 Singh, Makan, 35 satyaneshi, 68 Singing in the Rain, 220 The Scandal of the State: Women, Law and Singin’ in the Rain, 46 Citizenship in Postcolonial India Sinha, Debraj, 92 (Rajeswari Sunder Rajan), 40n30 Sinha, Mrinalini, 38n4 Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 161 Sipahi Ki Sajni (The Sepoy’s Beloved), 141 Second Life or World of Warcraft, 260 Sippy, Ramesh, 21, 153 Seeta aur Geeta, 55 “Sishu” short story, by Mahasweta Devi, Seeta Devi, 51 82 Sen, Asit, 91 Slow Cinema, 251n8 Sen, Meheli, 1–15, 64, 100n, 116–32, slow motion camera movements, over 158, 171–2, 174n13 cityscape, 243 Index 291

The (Danny Boyle), , 239–40 14, 41n36, 192, 253 Sujata, 59, see also Guru; Rai, Aishwarya social bandit/banditry, 24 Sulochana, 62, 140–3 crimes of, 30 Sultana dacoit, in Chambal Valley, 30 historical decline in, 32–3 swadeshi, 50 hypotheses on, 29–30 Swami Vivekananda, 110 social films, Hindi, 119, 191, 244, 248 , 50–1 social justice, 29 Swatantra (free) Newspaer, 60, see also Somanatha: The Many Voices of History Guru (Romila Thapar), 39n16 Sony Entertainment Television, 173n6 T Sparsh, 91 Taare Zameen Par, 91, 93, 95, 97–8, see “Spectacular Spectacular” film, 257, 259, also Safary, Darsheel 264–5, 267n4 Tagore, Rabindranath, 51–2, 75, 86n18, Specters of Marx (Jacques Derrida), 118 192 Specters of Mother India, 38n4 Tagore, Sharmila, 212 Srikanta, 246 Tahrir Square, 25 Stallone, Sylvester, 161–2, 180 Taj Mahal, 146 stambhana (causing paralysis), 109 , major tendencies in, 239 star body tantras/tantrics/tantrism physics and metaphysics of, 180–2 abstract category of, 107 theorizing, 182–5 black magic within, 109 stardom, 122 depiction in Ramsay films, 111 as branding, 10 fiendish, 109–10 fantasy of male, 45 figure, in Hindi horror cinema, 102 female, 155n3 low intuition, 114 four ages of, 185–8 New Age spiritual guru as, 112 of Helen, 143 practices in horror films, 106 Lata Mangeshkar in early phase, 123 rites, 107 manufacturing Roshan’s, 168–72 role in Orientalist project, 102 media technologies relationship to, sacrifices, use of, 109 199n1 utilization to construct extreme mediological approach, 184 Orient, 102 Neepa Majumdar, as Hollywood tantrik babas (tantric gurus), 103 model of, 9 Tantrism, 101 Om Shanti Om (OSO) stardom Taussig, Michael, 38n11 reflexivity, 196–8 , 144 of playback singers, 158 , 147 Richard Dyer study of, 11 , 210 as self-creation, 199n1 The Telephone Girl, 140, 142 Stardom and Celebrity, 200n2 Tere Mere Sapne, 94, 133n15 , 176n32 Thakur, Gautam Basu, 67–83 star figures, 9–11 “The Three Ages of Looking” essay Star , 176n32 (Regis Debray), 183 stars functioning, as fashion icons, 47–8 Thugee Report (1915), 30 State Express, 141 Thumri, 144 Strayer, Kirsten, 253–66 time image, Deleuze’s notion of, 13 Strictly Ballroom, 255 To Die For, 230n2 structuralism, Lyotard’s critique of, 3 Tombs, Pete, 103 stunt queen, 158 Toofani Tarzan (Typhoon Tarzan), 141 292 Index

Totem and Taboo, 72, 85n10 vidvesana (causing enmity), 109 traditional obscenity, 214 Vidyapati, 189 transfiguration, 161–5 Vidyasagar, Ishwarchandra, 111 Translating Desire: The Politics of Gender Vijayalaxmi, 126 and Culture in India (Brinda Bose), virtuoso performance, of cinematic 38n7 technology and stylistic transnational corporeality, 161–5 technique, 13 transnational utopianism, 256, 258 , 218 trishul (Shiva’s trident), use by Ramsay brothers, 104 W truths of the unconscious, 68 Wanted, 160 Twitter, 181 Warhol, Andy, 242 Typist Girl/Why I Became a Christian, 140 Watan (Motherland), 141 typological 4figures, of cinema, 4–6 Webb, Philip, 16n1 A Wednesday, 13 U designs, for Indian fabrics, 48 uccatana (expulsion), 109 white khadi sari, 53–8 unacknowledged daughters, 17, see also Whose Life Is It Anyway?, 92 Aman, Zeenat; Babi, Parveen Wildcat of Bombay, 140–1 underworld film, 241 Wilde, Orson, 220 unusual star, 9, see also Helen The Wizard of Oz, 45 urban films, Bollywood, 13 Woh Kaun Thi?, 8, 111, 117, 124–7, 131, ghazal, 247 135n43 utsadana (destruction), 109 Woh Hai Kahan, 211 Utsav, 45 woman physicality, in classical Hindi UTV Motion Pictures, 207–8 film, 145 Wounded, 34 V wrestling films, 158 Vachani, Lalit, 37n2 Wuthering Heights, 221 Vah Life Ho To Aisi, 16n2 Valentino, 180 Y vamacari Tantrism, 110 YouTube, 181 Vanity Fair, 253 Varma, Ram Gopal, 13, 28, 33, 47, 208, Z 240–1 Zanjeer, 17n23, 192–3 vasikarana (bringing under control), , 176n32 109 Zigler, Harry, 263 Vasudevan, , 58 (ZNMD), Vedic Hinduism, 105–6, 111 160–1, 164 Veerana, 101 Zindagi Zindagi, 133n15 Veerappan, bandit king, 5, 24, 26–8, 33 Žižek, Slavoj, 67–8, 73–5, 79, 83, 85