Abhija Ghosh: Curiosity, Consent and Desire in Masaan (2015), Pink (2016), Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016) and Veere Di Wedding (2018). Puja Sen: Twenty-first century Heroines: Modernity in Cocktail (2012), Queen (2014) and Highway (2014)19. Megha Anwer: Consumer Pleasures and Hindi Cinema's En-gendered Distribution of Moral Capital in Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994) and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)18. Nupur Mittal: Of Pallus and Pants: Fabricating the New Woman of the New Nation Andaz (1949), Mr. Nonica Datta: Honoured Mother and 'Honour' Killing: Ammaji in NH10 (2015) Isha Purkayastha: The Female Atankvadi: Gender, Militancy and the Politics of Representation in the late 90s.15. Neha Dixit: Outcast / Outlawed: The Bandit Queen (1996)14. Menka Ahlawat: 'itni bhhi mahaan main nahi hoon, raja!' ('I'm not that great, O king'): the Angry Young Woman of the 1970s13. Smita Banerjee: The Caged Woman: Female Guilt, Desire and Transgression in Bandini (1963)12. Rakesh Shukla: Sex Workers in Hindi Cinema: Imagos and Realities The Question of Violence11. Neha Yadav: Guns, Gangsters and 'Gandagi': the Moll in Hindi Cinema10. Sameera Mehta: The Prison-House of Performance: the Figure of the Dancing Girl in Bombay Films of the1960s9. Ruth Vanita: Goddess, Saint and Journeying Soul: Courtesans and Religion in Bombay Cinema (1939-2015)8. Deepika TandonThe Politics of Sanitisation / Sanskritisation: the Court Dancers and Classical Pasts ( Rajnartaki, 1941 Chitralekha, 1964 Amrapali, 1966)7.

Anjali Yadav, Anusha Choudhary, Divya Gupta, Ifsha Zehra, Neha Jaji Varghese, Prachi Khari, Shaifali Singh, Soumya Sharma, Tooba Towfiq, Violina Barman: 'ek admi tha, usne shadi karli!' ('There was a man who got married!'): Female Agency and Domestication in Omkara (2006) Mrinal Pande: The Goddess of Mean Things: the Mother-in-law in Hindi Films5. Shampa Roy, Saswati Sengupta: 'haan, haan mein alaida hoon!' (Yes, yes I am different!): the Disorderly Bibi in Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam (1962)4. Ira Bhaskar: Desire, Deviancy and Defiance in Bombay Cinema (1937-1960)3. Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy and Sharmila Purkayastha: Introduction: Breaking Bad The Disorderly Presence at Home2.

The Song Seekers by Saswati Sengupta