Mad tales from Bollywood : portrayal of mental illness in conventional Hindi cinema /
Bhugra, Dinesh.
Hove : Psychology Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-269) and indexes.
Includes filmography.
Cinema's culture -- Culture and mental illness -- Cinema, emotions, and psychiatry in India -- Attitudes towards mental illness -- Socioeconomic factors and cinema in India -- History of Hindi cinema -- Indian personality, villainy and history -- 1950s fun, Funtoosh and Kishore Kumar -- Psychoanalysis in the films of the 1960s -- Arrival of the new villain -- Rootless 1980s and fundamentalist 1990s -- Why should women remain behind? -- New century : new villains -- Family fun, frolics and madness in Khilona -- Electric shock treatment in Hindi cinema -- Conclusions.
Mental illness in motion pictures.
Motion pictures