Special interest group:
Euro-Bollywood

Convenors:  

• Rajinder Dudrah (Birmingham City University)
  
• Gyorgyi Vajdovich (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
  
• Bernhard Fuchs (University of Vienna)
  
• Monia Acciari (De Montfort University)

Overview

Over the past fifteen years the study of Bollywood or popular Hindi cinema has seen a rise in the number of book-length studies focusing on varying aspects of the cinematic form and related popular cultures.  Studies have included analysing key films, to exploring it as a global phenomenon or to consider it as a type of soft power within Indian state and economic discourses. Yet knowledge of Bollywood’s historical rise and geographical presence throughout the world is still limited. To this end, the Euro-Bollywood special interest group focuses on Bollywood in Europe and Europe in Bollywood. It aims to bring together for the first time pan-European and internationally based scholars and cultural partners to explore the histories, networks and filmic representations pertaining to Euro-Bollywood (i.e. ideas of Europe in Bollywood and Bollywood in Europe), to explore and create new knowledge and understanding, including conceptual frameworks through the interaction of different areas across film, media, cultural studies and related disciplines.
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The SIG aims to:​

• Publish online abstracts and summary of paper presentations of all the BAFTSS Euro-Bollywood SIG conference proceedings on a dedicated network website
• Following each BAFTSS annual conference, BAFTSS Euro-Bollywood SIG presentations and papers will be revised for publication in special guest-edited issues, or standalone articles of selected academic journals, (e.g. South Asian Popular Culture)
• Develop channels of communication with other special interest groups, individuals or organisations around the world
• Create a Twitter account and Facebook group and work to share relevant news and promote each others’ work
• With time and support from SIG members develop a critical bibliography to add to a website

Reports on activities

Annual reports

• Euro-Bollywood SIG Report 2019

Funding reports

• ​Deconstructing the Complexities Symposium

Founding members

• Ahmed, Omar (University of Manchester)
• Ranita Chatterjee (University of Exeter)
• Vishal Chauhan (Birmingham City University)
• Mrunal Chavda (Independent Scholar)
• Alexandra Delaney (Birmingham City University)
• Eleanor ​Halsall (King’s College London)
• Dina Iordanova (University of St Andrews)
• Anuja Jain (University of St Andrews)
• Marijana Janjic (University of Zagreb)
• Gaurika Kapoor (University of Sheffield)
• Florian Krauß (University Siegen)
• Sanjay Kumar (Central European University)​
• Zoran Lapov (University of Florence)
• Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp)
• Shorna Pal (University of St Andrews)
• Giovanna Rampazzo (Dublin Institute of Technology)
• Sanghita Sen (University of St Andrews)
• Roshni Sengupta (Leiden University)
• Madalena Shemilli (University of Florence)
• Salma Siddique (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Némésis Srour (EHESS Paris)
• Florian Staedler (University of Exeter)
• Júlia Szivák (Eötvös Loránd University)
• Claus Tieber (University of Vienna)