Review: Gangubai Kathiawadi film| Sex workers in Bollywood |Mafia queens of Bombay| Alia Bhatt Style

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Gangubai Kathiawadi is a story of a newly independent India, the post-colonial changes that the new state was undergoing and how this woman carved her way through the system and ended up becoming a mafia don that even Jawaharlal Nehru was fascinated by.

Professor Monika Mehta at Binghamton University talks to Raza Rumi about the recent #film #gangubaikathiawadi

Monika Mehta's research and teaching interests include new media and film studies; cinema in South Asia; theories of nation-state; feminist studies; postcolonial critique; and globalization and cultural production. She is the author of Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema (University of Texas Press, December 2011; Permanent Black, January 2012). Her articles and chapters examining trans/national film regulation; globalization and cultural production in India; DVD compilations; music awards; cinephilia; and authorship have appeared in journals such as Cultural Dynamics, The Velvet Light Trap, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, South Asian Popular Culture as well as edited collections such as Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance, Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity, Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and their Cinema, and Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies. Her co-edited collection, Pop Empires:Transnational and Diasporic Flows of Korea and India (University of Hawaii Press) is forthcoming.