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At the site of the neighbourhood cinema hall, Hindi cinema served to suture highly fragmented local public spheres to create a public sphere at the national scale. The production of the ‘national’ draws on the feminine, sexed body to both explore and naturalise the aesthetic and moral markers of ‘Indian-ness’.

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Hindi Cinema – Imagining the Nation – Bollywood and Hindi Films

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