A Diaspora Dreams series
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The Diaspora Screen
Indian cinema and the diaspora — the films made for us abroad, the film-makers we produced, and the stories the screen tells about leaving.
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About this series
For the Indian abroad, cinema has always been more than entertainment; it is the loudest, most portable piece of home. This series looks at Indian cinema through the diaspora's eyes — the films Bollywood built for its overseas audience, the directors and actors of Indian descent who remade cinema in other countries, and the stories the screen tells about leaving and belonging.
Each part is a standalone essay reported as journalism, not a review — the history, the economics, and the meaning, with the diaspora kept at the centre of the frame.
The series
The NRI film — how DDLJ made the diaspora Bollywood's muse
Published · Read part 1 →
The diaspora auteurs — Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta, Gurinder Chadha
Published · Read part 2 →
British Asian cinema — from Southall to the multiplex
Published · Read part 3 →
Hollywood's Indians — Irrfan, Dev Patel, Priyanka Chopra
Published · Read part 4 →
The overseas box office
Published · Read part 5 →
Tamil cinema's other homelands
Published · Read part 6 →
Streaming the diaspora
Published · Read part 7 →
From Apu to authenticity — the diaspora on screen
Published · Read part 8 →
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