The return of the Diaspora : recognizing the non-resident Indian (NRI) in contemporary Bollywood cinema.

• Main Author: Low, Shaun Chong Ying.
• Other Authors: Bede Tregear Scott
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films::Asian cinema
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35511
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper explores the representations of the Non-Resident Indian (NRI) in post-1990 Bollywood cinema. This essay closely examines the ways in which the NRI/diasporic Indian is in conflict between tradition and modernity, and how the subject is able to create a ‘third space’ where he/she can accomm...