ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book reveals that it was the Indies commitment to espousing alternative content and micro-narratives that deviate from majority Bollywood that led to their representations of subaltern characters and excluded fragments of society. It is fair to state that the current germination of independent film festivals across the diverse Indian terrain and demographic mirrors the disaggregated yet concomitant and prolific emergence of the Indie films themselves. With the Indies often bold indictments of prevailing political and religious structures, it is not only the discursive and direct regimes of censorship that could be brought to bear on the Indies and their proponents. All things being equal, it is possible to conclude that the Indies in their current interstitial position, in-between the nations pedagogical past and performative present, could be cinematic signifiers of a future time of liberation.
