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Madhuja Mukherjee

Madhuja Mukherjee is Professor of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research involves: South Asian film and media industrial histories, sound in cinema, gender, labour, digital practice, and urban cultures. She focuses on archives, materiality, transmediality and trans-regionality of film and media. Her academic research has evolved into media-installations, comics and films. Among others, Mukherjee published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, Bioscope, South Asian Film and Media, South Asian History and Culture, Jumpcut journals, and her recent co-edited volumes include: Popular Cinema in Bengal (2020), Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India (2020), Wondrous Screens in India (forthcoming, 2026).

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Titas and Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinematic Departure

Riverine Stories: Titas and Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinematic Departure

Keeping Ghatak’s Titas Ekti Nadir Naam in focus, Madhuja explores if rivers enable us to understand stories and histories of decolonization

The City in Cinema, and Cinemas in the City: South City Mall and Locations of Display

Somewhat surprisingly while there are numerous studies on 19th Century Calcutta, enquiries on the political history of Calcutta from the partition years to the political upheavals of the late sixties and early seventies are rare, and are conspicuous by the absences. In this context, cinema becomes an important visual evidence of the changing cityscapes.