Whereas the action genre has used the train intermittently, it is the musical and Bollywood romance with which it has become synonymous. By the late 1950s and early 1960s song and dance had become firmly established ‘as the primary vehicles to represent fantasy, desire and passion’ (Ganti, 2004: 81) since ‘the Indian censor board, established … Continue reading Genre, Iconography & Ideology: Imaginings of the Train in Indian Cinema – Part 3: Romancing the Train