S1xEp4: Desi Diaspora Le Jayenge - A Journey Through Hindi Cinema ( Pt 3 of 3)

The final episode of our three-part series exploring Hindi cinema's transition to Bollywood. In the first two episodes we looked at how India transitioned from a post-colonial country in the late fourties & early fifties, to a tumultuous era of political oppression in the seventies.

With today’s episode we are finally examining how the liberalization of Indian economy in the nineties, coincided with the release of films such as Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Pardes, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, and how the Non Resident Indian (NRI) market became a key demographic for those films.

• ​Released: September 6, 2019
• Intro & Outro music: Sourced from royalty-free sites.
• Films Mentioned & Dialogue Clips from:
  • Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Aditya Chopra, 1995)
  • Purab aur Paschim (Manoj Kumar, 1970)