The Revolution of Indian Parallel Cinema in the Global South (1968–1995): From Feminism to Iconoclasm

Drawing from over a decade of research and writings, this book takes you on an epic journey through the history of Indian Parallel Cinema (1968 - 1995). India, the late 1960s. Something was in the air. A film manifesto penned by passionate cinephiles called for a new cinema.An exciting generation of iconoclastic filmmakers were on the march, the first to graduate from the newly incarnated Film and Television Institute of India, seizing the moment to forge one of the first major post-colonial film movements.What emerged was an unprecedented level of creativity, merging international influences with experimental, indigenous styles, and creating an aesthetic and thematic rupture, and that ultimately led to new ways of making films.But it is a story that has rarely been told, inextricably absent from the parochial, Euro-centric and linear histories of film.This is the story of Indian Parallel Cinema. From auteurs like Mani Kaul and John Abraham to Smita Patil and Om Puri, The Revolution of