‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety

Details the history of desire and anxiety underlying the cinematic representation of the modern “Indian” woman

Interrogates the ideological representation of women in cinema—the changing images as well as the enduring prototypes—and their relationship with social and material histories

Examines the politics of female desire/s from the 1930s till the present times—both, through in-depth analyses of single films and the tracing of typologies in multiple films