[Reader-list] [announcements] Talk by Dr Raminder Kaur: Tuesday, 26th April

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PUKAR 

 

cordially invites you to a talk 

 

by

 

Dr Raminder Kaur



on 

Cruising on the Vilayeti Bandwagon:Diasporic Representations and Reception of Popular Indian Movies 



Date:    Tuesday, 26th April 2005

 

Time:    6:30 p.m. 

 

Venue:  Max Mueller Bhavan  

            Kala Ghoda

            Mumbai

 


Since the 1990s, the UK has become the site of maximum profits for popular Indian films, particularly amongst its South Asian diaspora. This paper critically examines the debates about the representation of diasporic subjects in films as well as the reception of two blockbuster movies in London: Dilwale Dulhane Le Jayenge and Dil Se. It argues that box office successes and ratings cannot simply be translated into a discourse about the prevalence of 'NRI nostalgia' for India. It also highlights a new global hegemony which has been created by the capital and distributive networks surrounding Indian cinema, which in the end amounts to authorative statements about what it means to be a 'proper Indian', regardless of other particular histories and cultural productions.




Dr Raminder Kaur is Lecturer in Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism (Permanent Black, 2003), co-editor of Travel Worlds Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics (Zed Books, 1999), co-author of Diaspora and Hybridity (Sage 2005), and co-editor of Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens (Sage, 2005).




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