Abstract
Cinema as an art and medium is a rich field that enables to analyze the interaction between ideological reproduction and commercial production. This article aims to investigate this interaction through the Bollywood cinema. Within the colonialist and post-colonialist process, the effects of the censorship and globalization have constituted a nationalist stream in Bollywood. In this context, this article firstly describes the historical development of the Bollywood cinema. Afterwards, the commercial dimensions of this cinema in today’s global conditions are introduced. The findings support the nation that the postcolonial state reproduces an anti-colonial nationalism out of Bollywood cinema as a postcolonial social practice.
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