The way in which the spectator responds to the song and how narrative, lyrics, music, mise-en-scènes, all come together to accentuate sentimentality and melodrama in the Golden Age of Bollywood cinema (1951-1963) is the book's key thematic concern.
Jasmine Sofia Jannif is sometime Senior Lecturer at The University of the South Pacific and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin.
