The Territorial Fragments of Globalisation in Contemporary Bombay Cinema

Ranjani Mazumdar (Jamaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)

The complicated workings of various kinds of production infrastructures typically shape cinema’s topographical motivations and sense of scale. Through a comparative analysis of a set of films shot in and around Bombay with films shot in iconic locations outside India, I will establish how the aesthetic drives of vertical, horizontal, and transnational urbanism have generated a cartographic diversity in the cinematic imagination of globalised India.