This edited volume on new independent Indian cinema is a comprehensive compendium of diverse theoretical, philosophical, epistemological and practice-based perspectives, featuring contributions from multidisciplinary scholars across the world.

Foreword: ROSIE THOMAS Introduction: New Independent Indian Cinema: Disciplinary Evolution and Cinematic Revolution ASHVIN I. DEVASUNDARAM Chapter 1: Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan: The Politics and Legacies of the New Wave Movement in Contemporary Indian Cinema ANUJA JAIN Chapter 2: From New Cinema to New Indie Cinema: The Story of NFDC and Film Bazaar SUDHA TIWARI Chapter 3: Breaking Curfew, Presenting Utopia: Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider Inside the National and International Legal Framework PRETI TANEJA Chapter 4: Queer Radiance: Margarita with a Straw, Disability and Vision AMY VILLAREJO Chapter 5: Indie Crowdfunded Narratives of Commercial Surrogacy, or the Contested Bodies of Neoliberalism: Onir's "I Am Afia" and Arpita Kumar's Sita ANA CRISTINA MENDES Chapter 6: Film Festivals as Cosmopolitan Assemblages: A Case Study in Diasporic Cocreation MONIA ACCIARI Chapter 7: Documentary as Witness; Documentary as Counter-Narrative: The Cinema of Sanjay Kak APARNA SHARMA Chapter 8: DiverCity: Independent Documentary as an Alternative Narrative of the City FAIZ ULLAH, ANJALI MONTEIRO AND K.P. JAYASANKAR Chapter 9: Zanjeer to Pink: The Trajectory of Amitabh Bachchan's Angry Young/Old Man Persona from Mainstream to Indie Cinema SWARNAVEL ESWARAN Chapter 10: Rapping in Double Time: Gandu's Subversive Time of Liberation ASHVIN IMMANUEL DEVASUNDARAM Chapter 11: Sairat's Transgressive Femininity: Quizzing Marathi Cinema AARTI WANI Chapter 12: Untold Stories, Representations and Contestations: Masaan (Crematorium) and Asha Jaoar Majhe (Labour of Love) SANGEETA DATTA Chapter 13: Haobam Paban Kumar and the Cinemas of North East India MEENAKSHI SHEDDE Chapter 14: The Subaltern Screams: Migrant Workers and the Police Station as Spatio-Carceral State of Exception in Tamil film Visaranai ASHVIN I. DEVASUNDARAM ContributorsIndex