Cover -- Contents -- Brave New Bollywood: An Introduction -- Dibakar Banerjee -- Of Milieu, Technique and the Dialectic of Anti-dumb Cinema -- Kiran Rao -- The Personal as the Voyeur-The Aesthetics of Meaning -- Reema Kagti -- Collaboration and Commerce-Treading the Thin Line -- Zoya Akhtar -- Urban and Unapologetic-The Cinema of Zoya Akhtar -- Shonali Bose -- Loss and Survival-The Cinema of Meaning -- Anusha Rizvi -- Content as King-How Stories Create Filmmakers -- Onir -- The Politics at the Margins-Being an Alternative Filmmaker in Bollywood -- Tigmanshu Dhulia -- The Alternative as Mainstream-Blurring the Boundaries in Cinematic Tradition -- About the Authors
Summary
An academic enquiry into the works of avant-garde filmmakers!
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters