The Politics Of Indias Conventional Cinema

Download or read book The Politics of India's Conventional Cinema written by Fareed Kazmi and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the widely held belief that India's mainstream cinema is pure entertainment and entirely fantasy-oriented. Instead, the author shows how conventional cinema voices the concerns of the people and is essentially political, in that it is a major cultural and ideological force that not only reflects reality, but constructs it.