Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives

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Cover Contents List of Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Michael Lawrence 1 Shanta Apte and the unexpected Anupama Kapse 2 Confessions of Indian cinema’s first woman superstar: Kanan Devi’s memoirs, film history and digital archives Ranita Chatterjee 3 Star’s ‘dust’: Miss Kumari and the fossilized memory of the ‘first Malayalam female star’ Darshana Sreedhar Mini 4 In the wink of an eye: The comedic universe of Johnny Walker Radha Dayal 5 Dharmendra Singh Deol: Masculinity and the late-Nehruvian hero in Hindi cinema Anustup Basu 6 Rajkumar and the Kannada-language film M. K. Raghavendra 7 The feudal lord reincarnate: Mohanlal and the politics of Malayali masculinity Meena T. Pillai 8 From Gandhi to Jinnah: National dilemmas in the stardom of Rattan Kumar Salma Siddique 9 From Son of India to teen king: Sajid Khan and transnational stardom Meenasarani Linde Murugan 10 Harbhajan Maan: The transnational migrant success story of Punjabi cinema Harjant S. Gill 11 Helen: The Chin Chin Chu girl Sudesh Mishra 12 ‘She’s everything that’s unpardonable’: Hema Malini, dream girl on a motorbike Rosie Thomas 13 Sridevi, queen of farce: Comedy, performance and star persona in popular Hindi cinema Nandana Bose 14 The irresistible badness of Salman Khan Shohini Ghosh 15 Shah Rukh Khan starring as Shah Rukh Khan: Performance style, audience expectation and self-parody Charlie Henniker 16 The curious case of Katrina Kaif: NRI stardom and ethnicity in Bollywood Midath Hayder Index