Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary films in detail, such as Lakshya, Veer Zaara and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.

1. Studies in Bollywood Travels 2. Borders and Border Crossings in Main Hoon Na and Veer Zaara 3. Dance Baby Dance: Diaspora, Place and Aesthetics in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom 4. The Secret Politics Are Out? The Pleasures of Gender and Sexuality in Dostana 5. Haptic Urban Ethnoscapes and Bollywood Popular Cultures in the Diaspora 6. Performing Bollywood: Hindi Cinema Entertainment Shows 7. Conclusion

Rajinder Dudrah is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Screen Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He has researched and published a large number of books on film, media and cultural studies.