Debashree Mukherjee offers a panoramic history of early Bombay cinema and its consolidation in the 1930s. Bombay Hustle provides vital insight into practices of modernity and political, social, and technological change in late colonial India.

Debashree Mukherjee is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. She worked in Mumbai's film and television industries from 2004-2007.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapping a Cine-Ecology
Part I. Elasticity: Infrastructural Maneuvers
1. Speculative Futures | Teji-Mandi
2. Scientific Desires | Jadu Ghar
3. Voice | Awaaz
Part II. Energy: Intimate Struggles
4. Vitality | Josh
5. Exhaustion | Thakaan
6. Short Circuit | Struggle
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index