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Journal Article
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2017
Overview
Crowning SRK as the King of Bollywood is not just a way of signposting Bombay as the largest film producer of the world, it is a way to draw attention to the secret power Indian film stars enj oy, a means for acknowledging South Asian stardom as an area ofeconomic and cultural surplus.[...]a vital task ofthis dossier is to unpack the textual, aesthetic, industrial, and affective intensities that undergird \"the-biggest-star-you'venever-heard-of \" soubriquet.Ostensibly, Fan was conceived as a determined rejection of the masala form; in effect, however, it congeals as a lament for that (now defunct ?) formal system.[...]fittingly, all five essays wrestle with questions of recall-the older star/fan/celebrity culture, Hindi cinema's primordial use of the double, older idioms of romantic love aligned to the song sequence and to looking, etc.-even as they illuminate what remains startlingly new and unexpected in Fan.The double allows the film to explore the logics of original/ copy, singularity/interchangeability, and liveness/mediation that dominate the proliferating circuits of contemporary star habitation.[...]as a film where SRK plays a double lead, Fan jettisons the deep centrality of heterosexual romance in Bombay cinema.[...]in some cases, SRK has returned money to distributors to compensate for flops.
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Wayne State University Press
