Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram has a PhD from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He is currently Programming Adviser for the London Asian Film Festival (LAFF) and Creative Director of the festival's expansion to other cities in the UK.

Contemporary scholarship on Indian cinema so far has focused asymmetrically on Bollywood-India's dominant cultural export. Reversing this trend, this book provides an in-depth examination of the burgeoning independent Indian film sector.

Introduction

Part 1

1. Bollywood and the Cinemas of India: The Story so Far

2. The Meta-Hegemony: Leviathan Bollywood and Lilliputian Indies

3. The Anatomy of the Indies

4. Avenues of Indie Funding, Distribution and Exhibition

5. Interstitial Indies Interrogating India's Double Narrative

6. Running Along with Scissors: Censorship and Regulation

Part 2: Case Studies

7. Rapping in Double Time: Gandu's Subversive Time of Liberation

8. Dhobi Ghat: The Marginal in the Mumbai Mainstream

9. Peepli Live: Neoliberal Capital, Media 'Knowledge' and Political Power

10. All the World's a Ship: Broken Binaries and Hyperlinked Heterotopias in Ship of Theseus

11. A Cinematic Quartet Conjuring Ghosts of Nation: Harud, Haider, The Lunchbox and I Am

Conclusion: Charting the Ship's Course