With its sudden explosions into song-and-dance sequences, half-time intermissions, and heavy traces of censorship, Indian cinema can be identified as a ‘cinema of interruptions’. To the uninitiated viewer, this unfamiliar tendency towards digression may appear random and superfluous. Yet, this book argues that such devices assist in the construction of a distinct visual and narrative time-space. In the hands of imaginative directors, the conventions of Indian ...
