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  Bollywood’s Index: Allusions and Inside Jokes in Om Shanti Om

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  March 12, 2008

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  at least Farah Khan) is in on the joke, too. Beginning to research Bollywood from the angle of its ...
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  Kumaari

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  Arvind Rajagopal New York University

  February 08, 2007

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  surrounded by those who fit other brahmin stereotypes, of being lecherous and hypocritical. Beginning with ...
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  Is Bollywood Still Producing Musicals? (Has It Ever?)

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  Nilanjana Bhattacharjya Arizona State University

  June 13, 2012

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  motivated at least partly by their expense and the fact that their inclusion lengthen films' duration ...
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  Global Hollywood on Cruise control? Maybe not.

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  Nitin Govil University of Southern California

  August 16, 2013

  opening weekend gross for a Hollywood film in India, collecting over US $5 million. But that’s the least ...
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  “Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail

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  Shalini Shankar Northwestern University

  April 30, 2008

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  “Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail Youtube viral video United States race President politics masculinity elections CamPain 2008 Bollywood Asian American Curator's Note In December 2007, 22 year old white American vir ...
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  Yaari, men in drag, and gays: tracing the changing dynamics of queer male sexuality in popular Hindi cinema

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  Sreya Mitra University of Wisconsin, Madison

  April 24, 2008

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  Yaari, men in drag, and gays: tracing the changing dynamics of queer male sexuality in popular Hindi cinema South Asian sexuality queerness Page 3 masculinity Life in a…Metro Bollywood Curator's Note Male homoeroticism in yaari (colloquial Hindi for ...
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  Autism, Automaton, Alibi

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  April 06, 2011

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  Autism, Automaton, Alibi autism in the media South Asians Bollywood South Asian films India terrorism Curator's Note The Bollywood film My Name is Khan invokes   autism as alibi. T he lead character’s autism is reminiscent (derivative?) of Rain Man, ...