ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ways in which women travail within, negotiate, modify, manipulate and subvert the popular formats of different genres in films produced specifically in Bollywood. It provides an overview of the perception, role and functioning of the Bombay film industry in India. The chapter analyses films from the 1990s to the first decade of the new millennium directed and written by Honey Irani and Tanuja Chandra. It examines how they carved out a creative tradition that has had enormous impact on post-millennial directors of all genders. The chapter focuses on the wide range of genres in which the post-millennial women directors of Bollywood work. It is clear that Indian women filmmakers of the post-satellite era owe a great deal to the achievements of their predecessors in the pre-satellite era. Since the 1990s, Indian women have increasingly been playing a significant role in different authorial positions in Indian film and television industries.
