Sreya Mitra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sreya Mitra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sreya |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitra |
| SIGNATURE | MITRA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0466-5144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bollywood and Cultural Contestation
You are from the country of @iamsrk. I trust you’
Beyond the Nation and the Diaspora
The MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region has long been a site of Hindi film consumption and circulation, with Dubai emerging in recent years as a potent hub for Bollywood’s overseas distribution and marketing. Though the role of the “Gulf” in articulating immigrant experiences and regional identity among Malayali Indians is well documented (Radhakrishnan 2009), Hindi cinema’s popularity in the region has rarely received any scholarly attent…
ModiWithAkshay
On 24 April 2019, the New Delhi-based news agency, ANI, telecasted a ‘non-political’ interview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted by Bollywood star Akshay Kumar. Regarded as a PR coup, particularly in the context of the ongoing Indian parliamentary elections, the ‘freewheeling’ interview underlined Bollywood’s increasing proximity with the Modi-led BJP government. Employing a detailed analysis of the interview and the subsequent controvers…
Discourses of Hindi film fandom and the confluence of the popular, the public, and the political
Indian fandom reconstituted as a more participatory culture with the emergence of online cyber communities in the late 1990s to early 2000s, a move accompanied by shifts in the Indian mediascape. With increasing synergy among film, television, and digital media, Bollywood stars were consequently remade as transmedia celebrities. Bollywood stars use digital media such as Twitter and Instagram for promotion and publicity, but such use has created a…
From ‘Angry Young Man’ to ‘Benevolent Patriarch’
For popular Hindi cinema’s aficionados, the cinematic idiom’s male protagonist, the Hindi film hero, is perceived as emblematic of the nation’s travails and aspirations. Subsequently, this magnifies the role of the Bollywood male star who with his hyper-virile masculinity, is often employed to the task of articulating questions of national and cultural identity. As the seventies’ iconic ‘Angry Young Man,’ Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan echo…
Trolled, body-shamed and slut-shamed
For connoisseurs of popular Hindi cinema, or Bollywood as it is more commonly known, the star is the focal point of their cinematic experience. Despite recent changes in the Indian mediascape, the Bollywood stars’ centrality remains undiminished. With the increasing synergy between film, television and digital media, the Hindi film star now straddles multiple platforms, effortlessly essaying the varied roles of a movie idol, a television personal…
Miss World' meets 'dutiful daughter-in-law
In this article, I analyse how the star text of popular Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai underlines the female star’s attempt to navigate the chasm between the divergent realms of tradition and modernity, the private and the public. Employing a detailed analysis of Rai’s star image, particularly extra-textual material such as media interviews and features, I examine how the two seemingly contradictory aspects of tradition and modernity, and conseq…
The show of the millennium’
The phenomenal success of Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), the Indian franchise of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, underlines not only the successful adaptation of a global format show, but also its role in reinforcing and reiterating the nation's transition from a socialist ethos to a consumerist ontology. For millennial India, grappling with the contentious issues of tradition and modernity in a rapidly globalizing milieu, the show's ‘aspirational …
ModiWithAkshay
On 24 April 2019, the New Delhi-based news agency, ANI, telecasted a ‘non-political’ interview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted by Bollywood star Akshay Kumar. Regarded as a PR coup, particularly in the context of the ongoing Indian parliamentary elections, the ‘freewheeling’ interview underlined Bollywood’s increasing proximity with the Modi-led BJP government. Employing a detailed analysis of the interview and the subsequent controvers…
Trolled, body-shamed and slut-shamed
For connoisseurs of popular Hindi cinema, or Bollywood as it is more commonly known, the star is the focal point of their cinematic experience. Despite recent changes in the Indian mediascape, the Bollywood stars’ centrality remains undiminished. With the increasing synergy between film, television and digital media, the Hindi film star now straddles multiple platforms, effortlessly essaying the varied roles of a movie idol, a television personal…
Beyond the Nation and the Diaspora
The MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region has long been a site of Hindi film consumption and circulation, with Dubai emerging in recent years as a potent hub for Bollywood’s overseas distribution and marketing. Though the role of the “Gulf” in articulating immigrant experiences and regional identity among Malayali Indians is well documented (Radhakrishnan 2009), Hindi cinema’s popularity in the region has rarely received any scholarly attent…
From ‘Angry Young Man’ to ‘Benevolent Patriarch’
For popular Hindi cinema’s aficionados, the cinematic idiom’s male protagonist, the Hindi film hero, is perceived as emblematic of the nation’s travails and aspirations. Subsequently, this magnifies the role of the Bollywood male star who with his hyper-virile masculinity, is often employed to the task of articulating questions of national and cultural identity. As the seventies’ iconic ‘Angry Young Man,’ Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan echo…
The show of the millennium’
The phenomenal success of Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), the Indian franchise of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, underlines not only the successful adaptation of a global format show, but also its role in reinforcing and reiterating the nation's transition from a socialist ethos to a consumerist ontology. For millennial India, grappling with the contentious issues of tradition and modernity in a rapidly globalizing milieu, the show's ‘aspirational …
The show of the millennium’
The phenomenal success of Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), the Indian franchise of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, underlines not only the successful adaptation of a global format show, but also its role in reinforcing and reiterating the nation's transition from a socialist ethos to a consumerist ontology. For millennial India, grappling with the contentious issues of tradition and modernity in a rapidly globalizing milieu, the show's ‘aspirational …
Miss World' meets 'dutiful daughter-in-law
In this article, I analyse how the star text of popular Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai underlines the female star’s attempt to navigate the chasm between the divergent realms of tradition and modernity, the private and the public. Employing a detailed analysis of Rai’s star image, particularly extra-textual material such as media interviews and features, I examine how the two seemingly contradictory aspects of tradition and modernity, and conseq…
Discourses of Hindi film fandom and the confluence of the popular, the public, and the political
Indian fandom reconstituted as a more participatory culture with the emergence of online cyber communities in the late 1990s to early 2000s, a move accompanied by shifts in the Indian mediascape. With increasing synergy among film, television, and digital media, Bollywood stars were consequently remade as transmedia celebrities. Bollywood stars use digital media such as Twitter and Instagram for promotion and publicity, but such use has created a…
From ‘Angry Young Man’ to ‘Benevolent Patriarch’
For popular Hindi cinema’s aficionados, the cinematic idiom’s male protagonist, the Hindi film hero, is perceived as emblematic of the nation’s travails and aspirations. Subsequently, this magnifies the role of the Bollywood male star who with his hyper-virile masculinity, is often employed to the task of articulating questions of national and cultural identity. As the seventies’ iconic ‘Angry Young Man,’ Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan echo…
Trolled, body-shamed and slut-shamed
For connoisseurs of popular Hindi cinema, or Bollywood as it is more commonly known, the star is the focal point of their cinematic experience. Despite recent changes in the Indian mediascape, the Bollywood stars’ centrality remains undiminished. With the increasing synergy between film, television and digital media, the Hindi film star now straddles multiple platforms, effortlessly essaying the varied roles of a movie idol, a television personal…
Beyond the Nation and the Diaspora
The MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region has long been a site of Hindi film consumption and circulation, with Dubai emerging in recent years as a potent hub for Bollywood’s overseas distribution and marketing. Though the role of the “Gulf” in articulating immigrant experiences and regional identity among Malayali Indians is well documented (Radhakrishnan 2009), Hindi cinema’s popularity in the region has rarely received any scholarly attent…
ModiWithAkshay
On 24 April 2019, the New Delhi-based news agency, ANI, telecasted a ‘non-political’ interview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted by Bollywood star Akshay Kumar. Regarded as a PR coup, particularly in the context of the ongoing Indian parliamentary elections, the ‘freewheeling’ interview underlined Bollywood’s increasing proximity with the Modi-led BJP government. Employing a detailed analysis of the interview and the subsequent controvers…
Bollywood and Cultural Contestation
You are from the country of @iamsrk. I trust you’
Media studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (6 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Hindi (5 works) · Politics (5 works)