Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay
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By the 1960s, Hindilanguage films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizable nondiasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean world. Often confounding critics who painted the songdance films as noisy and nonsensical if not dangerously seductive and utterly vulgar, Bombay films attracted fervent wo...
By the 1960s, Hindilanguage films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizable nondiasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean world. Often confounding critics who painted the songdance films as noisy and nonsensical if not dangerously seductive and utterly vulgar, Bombay films attracted fervent wo...






















