Why Bollywood Songs Mean So Much to Indians Residing Abroad?

With Bollywood’s worldwide reach, theorists like Ashish Rajadhyaksha have considered these films from the early 1990s and 2000s as foretelling a ‘‘new sense of Indian-ness”. Low-barrier cultural pastimes like Bollywood movies and songs let Indians across the world to feel “‘civilization belonging, explicitly delinked from the political rights of citizenship’’. By permitting so many citizens […]