Indian Film Stars

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1. Amboo: Enacting Speed and Risk-Film Genre, Female Performance and the Indian Stunt Film; Anupama Kapse.- 2. K.L. Saigal: From Street Singer to Tansen; Neepa Majumdar.- 3. The Lady and the Tramp: The Star Couple of Raj Kapoor and Nargis; Rachel Dwyer.- 4. Johnny Walker: Every Man's Comic Star; Radha Dayal.- 5. Dharmendra: A Critical Study of the Eclipse of a Classical Hindi Film Star; Anustup Basu.- 6. From Son of India to Teen King: Sajid Khan and Transnational Stardom; Meenasarani Murugun.- 7. Goodbye Neverland: Child Star Rattan Kumar and the Move to Pakistan; Salma Siddique.- 8. Star's 'Dust': Miss Kumari and the Fossilized Memory of the 'First Malayalam Female Star'; Darshana Sreedhar.- 9. The Chin Chin Chu Girl: Helen and the Scandalous Other of Popular Hindi Cinema; Sudesh Mishra.- 10. 'She's Everything that's Unpardonable': Hema Malini, Dream Girl on a Motorbike; Rosie Thomas.- 11. Rajkumar and Kannada Cinema; M K Raghavendra.- 12. 'The Queen of Comedy': The Voice and Comic Performances of Sridevi in Popular Hindi Film; Nandana Bose.- 13. Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha: Stardom and Scandal before and after Silsila (1980); Michael Lawrence.- 14. The Feudal Lord Reincarnate: Mohanlal and the Politics of Masculinity in Malayalam Cinema; Meena T. Pillai.- 15. 'The B Grade King': Mithun Chakraborty and the Politics of Cult Stardom, Iain Robert Smith.- 16. The Other Street Singer: Kanan Devi, the Unsung Co-star of Barua and Saigal; Ranita Chatterjee.- 17. The Irrepressible Badness of Salman Khan; Shohini Ghosh.- 18. Harbhajan Maan: the Transnational Migrant Success Story of Punjabi Cinema; Harjant S. Gill.- 19. 'SRK Starring as SRK'-King Khan's Performance Style: Audience Expectations and the Emergence of Self-Parody; Charlie Henniker