"Shakespeare in Bombay: The Politics of Reimagining Romeo & Juliet in a Postcolonial Nation"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo8/
Author:
	Sharma, Paulomi.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2024
Publication Information:
	Literature/Film Quarterly 52, no. 3 (2024). (https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/52_3/shakespeare_in_bombay_the_politics_of_reimagining_romeo_and_juliet_in_a_postcolonial_nation.html#gsc.tab=0)
Annotation:
	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.
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	Balachander, Ek Duuje Ke Liye
	Bhansali, Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela
Tags:
	Film, Cinema, Television, Radio, Romeo and Juliet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Translations and Adaptations
WSB Update:
	Spring 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo8