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Film and cinema around the world

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The History of Indian Cinema

Ranita Chatterjee is a senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Exeter. She says there are other sides to Indian cinema, not just Bollywood as we know it. The world does tend I think to think of Indian cinema in that Bollywood tradition. But you have a rich and non-trivial tradition of cinema coming from Bombay which is where Bollywood is sort of reduced to Bombay cinema.

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