Mad tales from Bollywood : portrayal of mental illness in conventional Hindi cinema / Dinesh Bhugra.

Hove [England] ; New York : Psychology Press, 2006.

xvi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Cinema's culture -- Culture and mental illness -- Cinema, emotions, and psychiatry in India -- Attitudes towards mental illness -- Socioeconomic factors and cinema in India -- History of Hindi cinema -- Indian personality, villainy and history -- 1950s fun, Funtoosh and Kishore Kumar -- Psychoanalysis in the films of the 1960s -- Arrival of the new villain -- Rootless 1980s and fundamentalist 1990s -- Why should women remain behind? -- New century : new villains -- Family fun, frolics and madness in Khilona -- Electric shock treatment in Hindi cinema -- Conclusions.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-269) and indexes.

Includes filmography.