Unveiling narratives: representation of same-sex love in bollywood films by Prasitha V, Bhuvaneswari G

“…This paper focuses on the select Bollywood films, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019) by Shelly Chopra Dhar and Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (2020) by Hitesh Kewalya. …”
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Trends in tobacco, alcohol and branded fast-food imagery in Bollywood films, 1994-2013. by Ailsa J McKay, Nalin Singh Negi, Nandita Murukutla, Anthony A Laverty, Pallavi Puri, Bella Vasant Uttekar, Sandra Mullin, Christopher Millett

“…CONCLUSIONS:Although the extent of tobacco imagery in Bollywood films fell over 1994-2013, it is still frequently observed. …”
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Item Girls and Objects of Dreams: Why Indian Censors Agree to Bold Scenes in Bollywood Films by Tatiana Szurlej

“…The article presents the social background, which helped Bollywood film industry to develop the so-called “item numbers”, replace them by “dream sequences”, and come back to the “item number” formula again. …”
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Flash activism: How a Bollywood film catalyzed civic justice toward a murder trial by Ritesh Mehta

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Do weak readers in rural India automatically read same language subtitles on Bollywood films? An eye gaze analysis by Somnath Arjun, Brij Kothari, Nirav Kumar Shah, Pradipta Biswas

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Habīb TanvIr. La leggenda vivente del teatro moderno hindī by Francesca Caccamo

“…This paper outlines the life and career of Habīb Tanvīr, one of the most famous Indian playwrights, but also actor and poet, starting from his first experiences in Mumbaī as scriptwriter for the Bollywood film industry up to the present. It highlights the innovative aspects of his theatrical concept and the creation of a group made up of actors coming both from the academic background and from rural areas, therefore from indigenous forms of theatre.…”
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Twisted Skeins of Women and Wilderness by Amar Singh, Shipra Tholia

“…An example of this is the Bollywood film Sherni, which finds its tropes in the Shrew tales, famously used by Shakespeare. …”
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Literary Moonlighting : the cultural spaces of Shashi Tharoor by Skinner, John

“…His second novel, Show Business (1991), with its light-hearted satire of the Bollywood film industry, is also a more trenchant indictment of corruption in Indian public life. …”
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The image of Spain as a tourist destination through audiovisual productions. The case of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Zoya Akthar, 2011) by María Ramón Gabriel

“… This article studies the tourist image of Spain projected by the Bollywood film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, directed by Zoya Akhtar. …”
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Revamping Shakespeare: Filmic Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet into Goliyon ki Rasleela Ram-Leela by Dr. Neenu Kumar

“…Local politics and national tensions make their way into Ram-Leela, clearly indicating that the movie is not merely an ‘adaptation’ but also a ‘masala Bollywood film,’ with its share of song and dance sequences, item number, ‘violent skirmishes’ between the two clans and the plotting to kill innocent people under the aegis of enmity. …”
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Malaysia in Indian Filmography: The Case of “Don” and “Kabali” by Subaramaniam, Kavitha, Roy, Swagata Sinha

“…Malaysians of diverse ethnicities have always had an appetite for Indian films from the black and white era to the present digital period. The Bollywood film, “Don” was shot in Malaysia in 2006 and it was very well received in Malaysia and India on its release. …”
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Dharma and the Religious Other in Hindi Popular Cinema : From Nehru through Modi by San Chirico, Kerry P. C.

“…This essay thus begins by examining how that legitimacy occurred and how the “Bollywood” film simultaneously became legitimate in the eyes of the Indian public and fit for discursive analysis. …”
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Bollywood, de viaje por España / Bollywood: Traveling around Spain by Alejandra Val Cubero

“…</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>The Bollywood film <em>Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara </em>(hereinafter ‘<em>ZNMD’</em>), translated into Spanish as <em>Solo se vive una vez</em>, was a box office success in the summer of 2011 in India. …”
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Coming of Age in the Diaspora: Bollywood and the Representation of Second Generation British Indian Diaspora by Utsa Mukherjee, Anil Pradhan, Ravinder Barn

“…Bollywood films are a unique visual repository of India’s public imaginings, and they can, therefore, serve as guides to how India sees its past, present, and aspirational future (Dwyer, 2010). …”
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Voyage dans la culture indienne à travers quelques échantillons du cinéma bollywoodien by Wendy Cutler

“…However, this study also highlights the fact that Bollywood films are important tools in order to learn about Hinduism. …”
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Voyage dans la culture indienne à travers quelques échantillons du cinéma bollywoodien by Wendy Cutler

“…However, this study also highlights the fact that Bollywood films are important tools in order to learn about Hinduism. …”
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100 Essential Indian Films, by Rohit K. Dasgupta and Sangeeta Datta by Darshana Chakrabarty

“…Among the many film industries of South Asia, the Indian film industry is the most prolific, specifically Hindi language film, more commonly known as Bollywood, which produces almost four hundred films annually. Bollywood films dominate the national market. These films have also been exported successfully to parts of the Middle East, Africa, and the Asiatic regions of the former Soviet Union, as well as to Canada, Australia, the UK, and the US. …”
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The use of code-mixing in Indian billboard advertising by Kathpalia, Sujata S., Ong, Kenneth Keng Wee

“…Although some researchers have previously investigated Hindi-English code-switching in Bollywood films as well as print advertisements, relatively little research has been done on the interplay of these two languages on billboards. …”
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“Pappu Can’t Dance Saala” : dis–locating bodies in Bollywood song and dance sequences. by Nurril Hirfana Mohamed Noor.

“…This research paper seeks to analyze the intersection between disability and song and dance sequences in Bollywood films within the last decade. Song and dance sequences as fixed structures presume the ability of bodies to lip sync and dance in a particular manner. …”
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The Indianisation of <i>Othello</i> by Genoveva Castro, Antonio Castro

“…The movie has the characteristic features of Bollywood films, but the basic notions of Shakespeare’s text are also present. …”
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