Chapter 1: Introduction: Wonder Women, Iron Ladies
Part 1 Auteurial Voices, Bollywood Glamor, Multiple Genres
Chapter 2: 'Love You Zindagi': Gauri Shinde's Celebration of Women and Life on Screen
Chapter 3: Zoya Akhtar: Global Genres and Gendered Signatures
Chapter 4: Revisioning Family Drama: The Global Spaces of Romance and Science Fiction in Honey Irani's Stories
Chapter 5: Women (Not) Telling Women's Stories: Tanuja Chandra's Directorial Journey from Action-Thriller to Romance and Beyond
Chapter 6: Reema Kagti and the Ethics of Surprise
Chapter 7: Farah Khan: Cinephilia, Nostalgia and Melancholy
Chapter 8: Guneet Monga: Gender, Labour and the 'Disrupter' Indie Film Producer
Part 2 The Transnational and Postcolonial Turns
Chapter 9: Roots and Routes: Home and the World in Sooni Taraporevala's Transnational storytelling
Chapter 10: Mira Nair and the Cinema of Postcolonial Spectacle
Part 3 Gender, Sexuality, Subversions
Chapter 11: Figurations of Fallible Women: The art and act of writing by Juhi Chaturvedi
Chapter 12: Queer Counter-narratives, Feminist Authorship, and the Inclusive Storytelling of Gazal Dhaliwal
Chapter 13: "Rosy Ki Khwaheeshein": Scripted Romance and Acquaintance Rape in Alankrita Shrivastava's Oeuvre of Female Desire
Chapter 14: Women at a Distance: Gender Politics and the Past in Bhavani Iyer's Writings
Part 4 Spatio-temporal specificities
Chapter 15: Marginalizations and Repressions in Vijaya Mehta's Pestonjee and Hamidabai ki Kothi
Chapter 16: Reconstructing Motherhood in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's Nil Battey Sannata.