A wide-ranging account of the Indian film star Madhuri Dixit, one of the most popular actresses of Hindi cinema. Nandana Bose's study traces Dixit's twenty-five year career, exploring her star persona, her indelible impact on Indian popular culture, and her continuing popularity even in middle age. Nandana Bose discusses Dixit's unusual and distinctive career trajectory that upends pre-existing models of female stardom, by marrying at the peak of her career, withdrawing from the limelight for years, and then returning to extend her career into her early fifties by reinventing herself as a transmedia celebrity for a new generation. However, it is her unique talent as a dancer, and her innovative choreographic styles and repertoire of movements that make her standout from other Hindi film stars. Surveying Dixit's film-making career, Bose argues that she represents a wholesome and traditional figure of femininity that has resonated across class and cultural hierarchies at a time of great economic and social change in India.
What is life without love, and what are these without the delight of laughter? Nandana Bose's gallimaufry of verse follows in the great tradition of limericks - poking poetic fun at our foibles and eccentricities, making us laugh. Malapropisms, sexual show-offs, bearded weirdies, druggies and drinkers, snail-lovers and provocative ladies all come under the poet's 'cosh'. But it's all very light-hearted, and the random targets and idiosyncrasies fit well with the nature of the genre as pioneered by Edward Lear. Laugh and enjoy Ms. Bose's collection, and if you catch sight of yourself in the mirror while doing so, like the author, then you'll have another source of mirth! Nandana Bose is twenty-seven years old and was born in Calcutta. She started writing limericks as an undergraduate at Presidency College in Calcutta. A British Chevening scholar from India in 2001, she holds masters degrees in Film Studies from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and Communications Studies from the University of Leeds, England. She is interested in English literature and theatre, cinema, politics, Western classical music, cricket and travelling.
A wide-ranging account of the Indian film star Madhuri Dixit, one of the most popular actresses of Hindi cinema. Nandana Bose's study traces Dixit's twenty-five year career, exploring her star persona, her indelible impact on Indian popular culture, and her continuing popularity even in middle age. Nandana Bose discusses Dixit's unusual and distinctive career trajectory that upends pre-existing models of female stardom, by marrying at the peak of her career, withdrawing from the limelight for years, and then returning to extend her career into her early fifties by reinventing herself as a transmedia celebrity for a new generation. However, it is her unique talent as a dancer, and her innovative choreographic styles and repertoire of movements that make her standout from other Hindi film stars. Surveying Dixit's film-making career, Bose argues that she represents a wholesome and traditional figure of femininity that has resonated across class and cultural hierarchies at a time of great economic and social change in India.
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