The horrific laughter in<i>Pachadlela</i>: A study of Marathi horror-comedy

Dhusiya, Mithuraaj

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“… 3. See Dhusiya (2013) on Marathi horror-comedy, Christopher (2013) on the “realpolitik” of Telugu comedians, and Rowena (2002) on hegemony and masculinity in Malayalam comic films. Christopher, in particular, examines how a sustained investment in Telugu comedy films starting in the 1980s, alongside changes in the taxation of film exhibition and the decline or retirement of iconic “star heroes,” led to the emergence of individually recognizable, popular comedians in Telugu cinema.…”

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Crossed wires and crooked calls: Imagining the telephone in South Indian comedy films of the 1990s

Chirumamilla

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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In this article, I argue for the necessity of studying the portrayal of technological infrastructures in popular cinema. Cinema provided a venue within which the potentialities of technological infrastructures could be codified, challenged and (irregularly) absorbed into everyday practice—a process that was especially fraught in postcolonial societies like India. I combine an analysis of the changes in Indian telecommunications policy in the 1990s with close readings of the telephone’s portrayal in two South Indian comedy films, Hello Pakkiram (1990) and Money (1993). These films imagined the telephone as a technology which undergirded a “middle-class” ethos which valued financial security above explicit moral commitment, in contrast to the explicit heroism of the “mass films” that shaped an earlier era of South Indian cinema. I conclude by reaffirming the necessity of thinking through mediations of technological infrastructures to gain more nuanced critical purchase on their place in our everyday lives.

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Crossed wires and crooked calls: Imagining the telephone in South Indian comedy films of the 1990s

Chirumamilla

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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The Ramsay Chronicles

Dhusiya¹

2014

Bollywood and Its Other(s)

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Following the Herd: A Study on Salient Trends in the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry in India

Mahajan

Iyengar

Bhowmik

2022

ShodhKosh J. Vis. Per. Arts

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From the first feature film ever produced in Hindi cinema to this date, the industry has witnessed a massive evolution. With changes ushering in almost every few years, it has seen its share of highs and lows in its quality and filmmaking standards. Speaking of the 21st century, while changes surely and gradually appeared in several aspects of the Hindi film industry, after 2010, many unprecedented conversions took place that shifted tectonic plates in Hindi cinema. However, there was one notion that the industry held on to, i.e. Its tendency to follow trends blindly. As soon as a method or a paradigm gains popularity, a noticeable majority quickly pick the "success formula" and start reproducing products in the exact similar fashion on and on until one day the trend loses its position amongst people, which is then taken over by yet another trend. This paper pursues a mixed methodology of exploratory study method with the assistance of library and secondary data, qualitative interviews with stake holders, cinegoers who extensively analyses the crucial trends followed by the Hindi film industry in the last decade, i.e., 2010-2020. The findings in the research paper provide deep insights into various trending formulas in Hindi cinema

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The horrific laughter inPachadlela: A study of Marathi horror-comedy

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Crossed wires and crooked calls: Imagining the telephone in South Indian comedy films of the 1990s

Crossed wires and crooked calls: Imagining the telephone in South Indian comedy films of the 1990s

The Ramsay Chronicles

Following the Herd: A Study on Salient Trends in the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry in India

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