Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema

Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan is Professor, Dept of HSS, IIT Madras, India. Her edited anthologies comprise Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: Celebrity and Fame in Globalized Times (2020), Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors (2017) and Post-liberalization Indian Novels in English: Global Reception & Politics of Award (2013).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Wonder Women, Iron Ladies.- Part 1 Auteurial Voices, Bollywood Glamor, Multiple Genres.- Chapter 2: ‘Love You Zindagi’: Gauri Shinde’s Celebration of Women and Life on Screen.- Chapter 3: Zoya Akhtar: Global Genres and Gendered Signatures.- Chapter 4: Revisioning Family Drama: The Global Spaces of Romance and Science Fiction in Honey Irani’s Stories.- Chapter 5: Women (Not) Telling Women’s Stories: Tanuja Chandra’s Directorial Journey from Action-Thriller to Romance and Beyond.- Chapter 6: Reema Kagti and the Ethics of Surprise.- Chapter 7: Farah Khan: Cinephilia, Nostalgia and Melancholy.- Chapter 8: Guneet Monga: Gender, Labour and the ‘Disrupter’ Indie Film Producer.- Part 2 The Transnational and Postcolonial Turns.- Chapter 9: Roots and Routes: Home and the World in Sooni Taraporevala’s Transnational storytelling.- Chapter 10: Mira Nair and the Cinema of Postcolonial Spectacle.- Part 3 Gender, Sexuality, Subversions.- Chapter 11: Figurations of FallibleWomen: The art and act of writing by Juhi Chaturvedi.- Chapter 12: Queer Counter-narratives, Feminist Authorship, and the Inclusive Storytelling of Gazal Dhaliwal.- Chapter 13: “Rosy Ki Khwaheeshein”: Scripted Romance and Acquaintance Rape  in Alankrita Shrivastava’s Oeuvre of Female Desire.- Chapter 14: Women at a Distance: Gender Politics and the Past in Bhavani Iyer’s Writings.- Part 4 Spatio-temporal specificities.- Chapter 15: Marginalizations and Repressions in Vijaya Mehta’s Pestonjee and Hamidabai ki Kothi.- Chapter 16: Reconstructing Motherhood in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s Nil Battey Sannata.