She works on modern South Asian visual cultures and industries, with a focus on late colonial Bombay cinema. Trained as a filmmaker she has worked in the Bombay’s film and television industries on projects such as Omkara (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2006). Her current book project, Parallel Action: Cinema and the Practice of Modernity, presents a cultural history of early Bombay cinema (1920s-1940s) that privileges material practice and circuits of work. Debashree is currently a core editor with the peer-reviewed journal, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies.