India is the world’s leading film producer, with more than 1,500 films a year in around twenty languages exported throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The international success of…

India is the world’s leading film producer, with more than 1,500 films a year in around twenty languages exported throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The international success of Bollywood must not conceal the diversity of Indian cinematography. This publication, edited by Julien Rousseau and Hélène Dessous from Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac presents essays and images from a vast and multicultural Indian cinema: Bollywood, Kollywood, Tamil, Bengali are all analysed in this publication.