Introduction 1
Part 1: Getting Started with Bollywood 5
Chapter 1: Introducing Bollywood 7
Chapter 2: Focusing on Family Over Everything Else 19
Part 2: Bollywood through the Years 41
Chapter 3: Looking at the Golden Age, from the 1940s to the 1960s 43
Chapter 4: Spotlighting Classical Bollywood in the 1970s and 1980s 57
Chapter 5: Going Contemporary: Bollywood in the 1990s and Early 2000s 77
Chapter 6: Good As New: Bollywood from the Mid-2000s to the Present Day 101
Part 3: The Sound of (Bollywood) Music 117
Chapter 7: Not a Sprint, but a (Musical) Marathon 119
Chapter 8: Getting Funky with Disco 135
Chapter 9: Feeding the Soul: Bollywood's Music Origins and Soul Music 147
Chapter 10: Mixing It Up with Other Musical Genres: Pop, Rock, and Rap 159
Chapter 11: Noticing Folk Music In and Out of Bollywood 173
Chapter 12: Painting the Town, Bollywood Style 185
Part 4: Bollywood Goes Global 199
Chapter 13: Leading Box Office Revenue Worldwide 201
Chapter 14: Bollywood Fans Grow in the Masses 213
Chapter 15: Grabbing Trophies: The Award Shows 223
Part 5: From Neighboring Industries to the Diaspora 233
Chapter 16: Taking From and Giving To Lollywood 235
Chapter 17: Examining South India's Bollywood 247
Chapter 18: Reaching Hollywood: Bollywood's Impact 255
Part 6: The Parts of Tens 275
Chapter 19: Ten Movies to Watch If You're New to Bollywood 277
Chapter 20: Ten Must-Watch Shah Rukh Khan Films 289
Chapter 21: Ten Bollywood Actors Who Transitioned to Hollywood 299
Index 305
Maaz Ali and Maaz Khan are co-hosts of Desi Standard Time, a podcast focused on Bollywood films, South Asian cinema and media, and the influence of both on their own lives and the rest of the world.
Anum Hussain serves as producer of the podcast. She is also co-author of the current edition of Twitter For Dummies.
