Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West

Varsha Panjwani teaches at NYU, London, UK. Koel Chatterjee teaches Integrated English at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music, UK.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsForeword: On Reading the Indian Shakespeare Film Poonam Trivedi (Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, India)AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West: Past, Present and Future DirectionsA Conversation between Varsha Panjwani (NYU London, UK) and Koel Chatterjee (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music, UK)PART ONE: Dismantling the Familiar1. Re-generation: Remapping the Screenscape in Fractious TimesDiana E. Henderson (MIT, USA)2. Two Indian Film Offshoots of Twelfth NightRobert White (University of Western Australia, Australia)3. ‘For never was a story of more woe’: Dialogic Telling and Global Interchange in Qayamat se Qayamat Tak, a ‘Bollywood’ Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK)4. ‘Indian’ Independent Cinema and Shakespeare: Conversations with Sharat Katariya and Vandana KatariaTula Goenka (Syracuse University, USA)5. Vandana Kataria’s Noblemen: Global Frames of InterpretationTaarini Mookherjee (Columbia University, USA)6. Chutzpah: The Politics of Bollywood Shakespeare SubtitlesVarsha Panjwani (NYU London, UK)PART TWO: Re-contextualizing the Strangers7. Curating Indian Shakespeares at the BFI in 2016Helen deWitt in conversation with Anne Sophie Refskou (Aarhus University, Denmark) 8. “Traveling” with Shakespeare through Bhardwaj’s Haider: Some Challenges in Teaching Global Shakespearean Adaptations in US University Classrooms: The Global Shakespeare MovementJyotsna Singh (Michigan State University, USA)9. Understanding Nimmi: Tracing Interpretations of Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool Ana Laura Magis Weinberg (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)10. ‘Naina thag lenge’: Visual Uncertainty in Othello and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara Shani Bans (University College London, UK)11. A Pair Of Homotextual Lovers: Bhansali’s Ram-Leela and Shakespeare’s Romeo & JulietAmritesh Singh (University of St Andrews, UK)12. ‘All the world’s a stage’: The Participatory Indian Cinema Audience and its Impact on Indian Shakespeare Films Koel Chatterjee (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music, UK)Afterword: Sonia Massai (King's College London, UK)Index