MK Raghavendra is an independent scholar of culture, literature and politics, specializing in film, particularly its political aspects. He won the National Award for Best Film Critic in 1997 and received a Homi Bhabha Fellowship to research popular film narrative. Since then he has authored six volumes of academic film scholarship from international publishers including Routledge. Apart from these, he has authored three academic works on literature, culture and politics. He has published in national and international anthologies and journals on the above subjects, and his writing has been translated into French, Polish and Russian and published.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Film Form and IdeologyChapter 2: The Trajectory of the Hero in BollywoodChapter 3: Representing WomenChapter 4: The Portrayal of Muslims as Religious MinoritiesChapter 5: Caste Identity and Conflict Chapter 6: Ethnicities and Hindi CinemaChapter 7: Representing the Social ‘Other’Chapter 8: Pakistan as the National ‘Other’Afterword: Asymmetric Nationhood

MK Raghavendra is an independent scholar of culture, literature and politics, specializing in film, particularly its political aspects. He won the National Award for Best Film Critic in 1997 and received a Homi Bhabha Fellowship to research popular film narrative. Since then he has authored six volumes of academic film scholarship from international publishers including Routledge. Apart from these, he has authored three academic works on literature, culture and politics. He has published in national and international anthologies and journals on the above subjects, and his writing has been translated into French, Polish and Russian and published.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Film Form and IdeologyChapter 2: The Trajectory of the Hero in BollywoodChapter 3: Representing WomenChapter 4: The Portrayal of Muslims as Religious MinoritiesChapter 5: Caste Identity and Conflict Chapter 6: Ethnicities and Hindi CinemaChapter 7: Representing the Social ‘Other’Chapter 8: Pakistan as the National ‘Other’Afterword: Asymmetric Nationhood

MK Raghavendra is an independent scholar of culture, literature and politics, specializing in film, particularly its political aspects. He won the National Award for Best Film Critic in 1997 and received a Homi Bhabha Fellowship to research popular film narrative. Since then he has authored six volumes of academic film scholarship from international publishers including Routledge. Apart from these, he has authored three academic works on literature, culture and politics. He has published in national and international anthologies and journals on the above subjects, and his writing has been translated into French, Polish and Russian and published.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Film Form and IdeologyChapter 2: The Trajectory of the Hero in BollywoodChapter 3: Representing WomenChapter 4: The Portrayal of Muslims as Religious MinoritiesChapter 5: Caste Identity and Conflict Chapter 6: Ethnicities and Hindi CinemaChapter 7: Representing the Social ‘Other’Chapter 8: Pakistan as the National ‘Other’Afterword: Asymmetric Nationhood