``Public Lectures, Seminar & Conference Presentations``
Spotting Krishna & Ravana in Rekha’s Madam X
@ the Institute for Global Cinema and Creative Cultures, University of St Andrews’ ‘The Rest and The West: RipOff or Resourceful Creativity?’ Innovation over Imitation in Popular Cinema Beyond the West workshop, October, 2016.
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Performing Heroism- characterising vira rasa through the brave hearts of Baahubali
@ the British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference (BASAS), Fitzwilliam College & the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, April 2016
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Draupadi’s insult in Mahabharata 2014 – a portrayal of courage in nine emotions.
@ the Centre for South Asian Studies’ seminars, University of Edinburgh, January 29, 2015.
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Love tales of the divine – Tracing Nātyasāstra influences in the birth of Odia cinema
@ the ‘MOVING ON: South Asian Screen Cultures in a Broader Frame’ conference, University of Westminster, London, June 2014.
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Rasa and Phalke: Tracing Nātyasāstra influences in the auteurship of the father of Indian cinema
@ the British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, London, April 2014.
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Gendered Rasas Perpetuating Gender Prototypes through Specific rasa-dominate protagonists in Maya Bazar
@ the Gender Studies and the Expanding Horizons of Inter/Trans-Culturality Conference, Center of English Studies and Center of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 2013
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Dancing Down the Decades in Bollywood Films
Public Lecture at the Scotland Dance Film Festival 2009.
Bollywood’s Kashmir: From Technicolor to Black & Grey, Mar. 2016
Changing Portrayals of Muslims in Bollywood, Mar. 2016
Brand SRK & The Global (desi) Indian Hero, Mar. 2016
Punjab Partition Narratives in Cinema, Oct. 2015
Maiden, Mother, Mistress: Imagining Bollywood Heroines, Nov. 2015
LGBT: Perceptions & Portrayals in Myth & Media, Nov. 2015
The Aesthetics of Hindi Cinema/Bollywood, Oct. 2015
Religion, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film1: Ruler, Artist & Terrorist:Changing Onscreen Protagonists of the Muslim Social, Feb. 2015
Religion, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film 2: Bollywood’s Kashmir: From Technicolor to Black & Grey, Feb. 2015
Cinema & Society 1: Between Recording History & Preserving Secularism: Partition Cinema – Themes, Challenges and Possibilities, Oct. 2014
Cinema & Society II: Father, Politician or a Friendly Spirit – Gandhi’s Changing Roles in Indian Cinema, Oct. 2014
Aesthetics of Indian Cinema, Jan. 2014
Genres and Debates in Indian cinema, Feb. 2014
Partition in Films, Oct. 2013
The Aesthetics of Indian Cinema (Influences & Evolution), Feb. 2012
Popular Cinema as a Tool for Social Reform? Nov. 2011
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