Research on Hindi Cinema
M.A Dissertations
| Ms. Ashwini Falnikar | 2009 | Exploring the character of the ‘Tapori’ in Bollywood. |
| Mr. Nikhil Thomas Titus | 2009 | Star Gazing: A Study in the construction of a star through the characters played by Amitabh Bachchan in Hindi and Mohanlal in Malayalam Cinema during the period of 1973-2007 |
| Ms. Shalini Nirmal | 2009 | Devdas Revisited: An analysis of the various cinematic interpretations of Devdas |
| Ms. Shaira Sequeira Shetty | 2009 | The Representation of Goa in Bollywood. |
| Mr. Darpan Ved | 2010 | Main Bhi Star Banunga: A Study of Strugglers in Bollywood |
| Mr. Jyotirmay Das | 2010 | Regarding Crime: An analysis of representation of crime in Hindi cinema between 1970-2009 |
| Ms. Isha Pungaliya | 2011 | Crime: A Celebration in Bollywood |
| Ms. Uma Milind Ranade | 2011 | Representation of Indian Diaspora in Bollywood Films |
| Mr. Sandeep Kumar Singh | 2012 | Negotiating the Local: The ‘Adaptation’ of Hollywood Films Within Hindi Cinema |
| Ms. Epti Pattnaik | 2013 | Star, Stardom and Salman Khan : The Image of Salman Khan after the success of Dabangg |
| Ms. Krishna Ketan Panchal | 2013 | Zeenat Aman: The Ultimate Hippy |
| Mr. Pratik Bhakta | 2013 | Spotting the Queer in Mainstream Hindi Cinema |
| Mr. Bishaldeb Halder | 2014 | The Spirit of Film Noir in Hindi Cinema |
| Ms. Ankita Bhatkhande | 2015 | Batwaara Aur Vidroha: Gendered violence and female agency in partition films |
| Ms. Shreya Sinha | 2015 | Extra-ordinary: Reading the Extra in Contemporary Bollywood Cinema |
| Ms. Shubhra Dixit | 2015 | Images of women in prayer in Hindi Cinema |
| Ms. Aditi Saraswat | 2016 | The Strange, The Smart and The Imagined: Understanding Realism in Contemporary Hindi Cinema |
| Mr. Anand Gautam | 2016 | Blankness on Screen: What is ‘new age’ Hindi Cinema and its Politics |
| Ms. Arpita Katiyar | 2016 | Creating Dialogue: An Exploration into the Realist Depiction of Language in Hindi Cinema |
| Ms. Maanvi | 2016 | Cinema in Your Pocket: A Study of Young Women Watching Popular Hindi Films on Mobile Phones |
| Mr. Sameer Daniel Gardner | 2017 | “Inspired By True Events”: Talvar, Black Friday and the Cinephiliac |
| Mr. Ketan Krishna | 2018 | Tea and Domesticity: Representations of the Urban Home in 1970s Hindi Cinema |
| Ms. Malvika | 2018 | Dil Baccha Hai: Looking for childhood in Hindi cinema Post 2010 films |
| Mr. Mohimarnab Biswas | 2019 | Shahrukh Khan & The Genesis of ‘Bollywood’ |
| Mr. Aayush Chaturvedi | 2019 | Finding Dibakar Banerjee: The City and Society in the Films of Dibakar Banerjee |
| Ms. Medhavi Kimothi | 2019 | Violence, Victim, Villians in Partition Cinema and Literature |
| Ms. Yamini Nibhanupudi | 2019 | The Neoliberal Representation of women as criminals in Hindi Cinema |
| Ajaykumar Kripashankar Shukla | 2020 | Enabling/Disabling On Screen: Portrayal of Disability in Hindi Cinema |
| Vishruti Saraf | 2020 | Ignorance of influence of Tawaifs in enrichment of performing art culture and their contribution to Indian film industry |
| Vyshakh M | 2020 | Representation of student politics in Indian cinema |
| Priya Singh | 2020 | Portrayal of women in Shyam Benegal films |
Papers in SubVersions: A Journal of Emerging Research in Media and Cultural Studies published by SMCS
| Aditi Maddali | Fantasizing Desire and Emulating Desirability Queer Spectatorship and Popular Hindi Cinema | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue1/aditi/ |
| Ishani Dey | ‘Beep’- the Sound of Erasure: The Censored Text as an Aesthetic Device | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue1/ishani/ |
| Akriti Rastogi | The Crowd and the DIY filmmaker: A Study of the DIY funding circuits of the dilettante | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue2/akriti/ |
| Aakriti Kohli | Some Notes on Negotiations around Sexuality and Consumption Practices among Young Women of Delhi | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol1-issue1/akriti/ |
| Nirali Joshi | “May I know who is on the line?”: Technology consumption, mobile telephony and the gender question | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol2-issue2/nirali/ |
| Ranu Tomar | Khabar Lahariya: A Feminist Critique of Mainstream Hindi Print Media | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol2-issue2/ranu/ |
| Rajashree Gandhi | Televisation of a Marathi Past: The Brahmanical emancipation of women in Uncha Mazha Zoka, a Marathi TV show based on Ramabai Ranade’s life | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol2-issue2/rajashree/ |
| Ritika Pant | I‘m a Drama Queen…But I‘m the Star you Love to See! Soap Operas, Melodrama and the Televisual Construction of Female Stardom | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue1/ritika/ |
| Tarishi Verma | Finger on your Lips: Indian Sanitary Napkin Advertisements and the Culture of Silence | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue1/tarishi/ |
| Shivani Gupta | Performance and Subversion in Kathak | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue1/shivani/ |
| Sudha KF | Looking into the Progressive: Yakshi’s Undoing | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue1/sudha/ |
| Sujatha Subramanian | Of Real Identities: Expressions of Femininity and Sexuality in Online Spaces | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue2/sujatha/ |
| Ashwini Falnikar | The Political of the Personal Blogs through Discussion of Women and Homes | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue2/ashwini/ |
| Shivani Satija | Negotiating Online Spaces through Subversive Bodies | http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol-4-issue-1/shivani/ |