Lalitha Gopalan is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema (BFI, 2002), Bombay (BFI Modern Classics, 2005), and Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India (2021). She is the editor of The Cinema of India (2010) and has published widely on Indian cinema in journals including Screen, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film and Film Quarterly.