Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas
The Culture of Movie-going after Stalin
Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas
Sudha Rajagopalan
Indian films and film stars were immensely popular with Soviet audiences from the mid-1950s through the end of the Soviet period. In this fascinating glimpse inside Cold War-era popular culture, Sudha Rajagopalan explores the consumption of Indian cinema in the USSR as a zone of negotiation and interaction between institutional actors, cultural mediators and movie audiences. Continue reading
