The Nationalist Imaginary in the Bollywood Sports Film

2021 ◽  
pp. 305-321
Author(s):  
Nissim Mannathukkaren
Keyword(s):  
Film Genre ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Sports Films ◽  
Hindi Film

Even after the liberalising of the Indian economy, the nationalist narrative, has endured, taking new forms. Some scholars have to argued that the post-national trope has been inaugurated in the Hindi film. By looking at a few popular sports films of the last decade and a half, Nissim Manathukkaren interrogates this contention pointing out that the post-national is not yet realized in the sports film genre. The author argues that the sports film by mirroring the limited notion of nationalism that is in sync with the logic of the market, is as yet a disappointment. It papers over the fissures and the complications within the current hegemonic nationalism, but carrying the potential of reimagining it. The author contends that in its intense desire to portray sporting glory as a triumph for the nation, films have tended to underplay individual struggles.

Religion, gossip, narrative conventions and the construction of meaning in Hindi film songs

Popular Music ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Booth
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Popular Film ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Sound Media ◽  
Music Film ◽  
Narrative Conventions ◽  
Hindi Film

IntroductionThe commercial Hindi language cinema is among the largest and oldest music film traditions on the planet. One of the most widely remarked and inflexible conventions of this highly stylised popular film genre is the regular appearance of song and dance scenes in almost every commercial Hindi film. A huge body of over 40,000 film songs (filmī gīt, as they are known in Hindi) has grown along with the thousands of Hindi sound films produced since 1931; unlike the more recent development of music video in the west, Hindi film songs have been intimately connected with larger narrative traditions and visual images from their very inception. Filmī gīt comprise one of the most intensely consumed popular music repertoires on the planet. Across the range of visual and sound media and on into live performance, the audience for film song must be numbered in the hundreds of millions throughout the South Asian subcontinent and diaspora.

Differential effects of film genre on viewers’ absorption, identification, and enjoyment.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline M. Thompson ◽  
Ben Teasdale ◽  
Sophie Duncan ◽  
Evert van Emde Boas ◽  
Felix Budelmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Differential Effects ◽  
Film Genre

The Indian Economy: Some Recent History and Near Term Prospects

Asian Survey ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 405-422
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Kauffman
Keyword(s):  
Recent History ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Near Term

Devotional Transformation

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 237-257
Author(s):  
Ravi Vasudevan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
The Status ◽  
Film Spectatorship ◽  
The Relationship

This article focuses on the specific Indian cinematic form of the Hindu devotional film genre to explore the relationship between cinema and religion. Using three important early films from the devotional oeuvre—Gopal Krishna, Sant Dnyaneshwar, and Sant Tukaram—as the primary referent, it tries to understand certain characteristic patterns in the narrative structures of these films, and the cultures of visuality and address, miraculous manifestation, and witnessing and self-transformation that they generate. These three films produced by Prabhat Studios between the years 1936 and 1940 and all directed by Vishnupant Damle and Syed Fattelal, drew upon the powerful anti-hierarchical traditions of Bhakti, devotional worship that circumvented Brahmanical forms. This article will argue that the devotional film crucially undertakes a work of transformation in the perspectives on property, and that in this engagement it particularly reviews the status of the household in its bid to generate a utopian model of unbounded community. The article will also consider the status of technologies of the miraculous that are among the central attractions of the genre, and afford a reflection on the relation between cinema technology, popular religious belief and desire, and film spectatorship.

Impact of Non-Performing Assets on Indian Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Preeti Rani Sen
Keyword(s):  
Indian Economy
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