A Decade of Opposites: Hindi Cinema’s Most Disruptive, Transformative Decade

The 1980s is a decade of contradictions in Hindi cinema. Theatres grew in numbers over the decade while the size of the theatre audience fell. Film budgets skyrocketed without a corresponding increase in box- office returns. The genre of films being made ranged from hard-hitting new wave to garish massy films scored by disco music as evidenced by the title of this book.