... films that deal with the nautanki dancer-actress: Basu Bhattacharya's Teesri Kasam (The Third Vow, 1966) and Chandan Arora's Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon (I Want to Become Madhuri Dixit, 2003). actresses Arora Chandan Bhattacharya Basu Teesri Kasam Main...

... that the films indicate Hindi cinema's return to the local through the representation of theatrical forms that exist on the cultural margins. It examines some of these films' appropriation of local theatrical traditions such as nautanki to represent contemporary social realities. Benegal Shyam...

...Delineating the influence of Brecht’s theatre on the countries of the so-called Third World, this chapter compares the conventions between Brecht’s epic theatre and the north Indian folk form svang or nautanki. With the constant, almost insistent claim...