ABSTRACT
Considered an appropriate form of entertainment for South Asian indentured workers during the colonial era, Indian popular cinema, now known as Bollywood, has been travelling to British colonies with South Asian diasporic populations since the silent era. Viewing Bollywood cinema as an assemblage, this chapter examines the multiplicities of affects on various bodies, spaces and media produced by popular Hindi films in Singapore through the intersection of the intensities of the Bollywood film with other intensities. Popular venues discussed include Jade cinema and Rang Fab in Shaw Towers on Beach Road, Bombay Café on Tanjong Katong Road, Bollywood Nights in Clark Quay, and Bollywood themed clubs Club Colaba, Dhoom and Krish in Boat Quay. The chapter focuses on the intensities produced by Bollywood assemblages through their articulation to these racialized, gendered, classed bodies of both the old and new diasporas in Singapore that intersected in these Bollywood spaces.
