Ravi Vasudevan works at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and is a co-initiator of Sarai, the Centre’s urban and media studies programme. He is a member of the editorial collective of the Sarai Reader series, editorial advisor to Screen, co-founder of BioScope, a journal of South Asian screen studies and has edited Making Meaning in Indian Cinema (OUP, 2000). His The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema (Ranikhet, Permanent Black, 2010) has recently been released in its international edition by Palgrave Macmillan. Vasudevan is currently Smuts Fellow at Cambridge.