How Women-Centric Bollywood Films Reinforce Patriarchy
Bollywood films purposefully bring out the negative aspects of “uncontrolled” female desire to maintain the patriarchal structure of Indian society.
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Sunny Jain’s Impressive ‘Wild Wild East’ Is a Compelling Call for Human Rights
Brooklyn bhangra heavyweight Sunny Jain draws on jazz, rock, and folk in a new, anti-xenophobia album Wild Wild East.
The New Empire Has Risen: ‘New Kings of the World’
Author Fatima Bhutto profiles the new arbiters of mass culture: Bollywood, Dizi, and K-pop, in her engaging cultural studies/travelogue, New Kings of the World.
Culture Is Not Innocent: An Interview with Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto discusses her new book on pop culture from the Global South, which goes above and beyond, among other things, the "sluggish, bloated, less urgent" films dominating Hollywood.
Brooklyn’s Vandana Shares Her Take on the Bollywood Song “Ahsa (Raat Baaki)” (premiere)
An electronic take on vintage Bollywood takes Vandana through supernatural scenery and behind-the-scenes chaos in her new video for "Ahsa".
Bombay Rickey Merges Bollywood, Surf Rock, and Opera on “Megalodon” (premiere)
High-energy opera and surf rock swirls tell a story of ancient sharks on Bombay Rickey's dramatic "Megalodon".
How Representative of India Is Bollywood?
Axiomatically, Rachel Dwyer’s Bollywood’s India is a survey of the collective dreamscape created by a billion desires and dreads.
‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ Is a Bloody Good Gangster Epic
Gangs of Wasseypur is tumultuous, five hour gangster saga, stuffed with humor as bleak as the story is bloody.
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Is Dickens, Bollywood Style
Slumdog Millionaire is a brilliant young man vs. the Establishment story. It’s Dickens gone Bollywood.