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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 52
IS  - 3
T2  - Literature/Film Quarterly
ID  - bbbo8
T1  - "Shakespeare in Bombay: The Politics of Reimagining Romeo & Juliet in a Postcolonial Nation"
AU  - Sharma, Paulomi
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Analyzes two indigenized adaptations of Romeo & Juliet in Hindi cinema that play out Shakespeare’s tragedy on foundations of two post-colonial issues of Indian nation-state: linguistic animosity and territorial power dynamics. Shows that films Ek Duuje Ke Liye (Made for Each Other, 1981, q.v.) and Goliyon ki Raasleela: Ram-leela (A Dance of Bullets: Ramleela, 2013, q.v.) manifest their cultural rootedness in “regional” embodiments as well as propagation of pan-Indian regional (rather than national) identity, despite being made in mainstream Hindi industry.
ER  -