Rajagopalan, Sudha

Sudha Rajagopalan originally from Bombay, is a doctor in Russian/Soviet history at Indiana University (Bloomington) in the USA. Inspired by her own attachment to Indian films and the spontaneity and passion with which people in the former Soviet Union always engaged her on the subject, Rajagopalan was eager to document and analyse the pivotal role of these films in Soviet history. Her work investigates the function of Indian popular cinema in post-Stalinist Soviet society and is based on extensive ethnographic and archival research in Russia. She currently lives in Leiden, the Netherlands.