Introduction: Detouring Networks PART I The Female Star, Traveling Figures and Transgressions 1. Fatma Begum, South Asia’s ‘First’ Female Director: Resurrections from Media and Legal Archives 2. The ‘Problem of Respectable Ladies Joining Films’: Industrial Traffic, Female Stardom and the First Talkies in Bombay and Tehran 3. Sabita’s Journey from Calcutta to Bombay: Gender and Modernity in the Circuits of Cinemas in India 4. Travels of the Female Star in the Indian Cinemas of the 1940s and 50s: The Career of Bhanumathi 5. Bringing Bharatanatyam to Bombay Cinema: Mapping Tamil-Hindi Film Industry Traffic through Vyjayanthimala’s Dancing Body PART II Networks of Circulation, Production, and Imaginings 6. Film exhibition in Hyderabad in 1930s: The Case of Motimahal Theatre and Film Circulation 7. Arriving at Bombay: Bimal Roy, Transits, Transitions, and Cinema of Intersection 8. Circumambient Geographies of Cinema: The Shaw Brothers’ Malay Film Production Studios in mid-century Singapore 9. Filmfare, the Bombay Industry and Internationalism (1952-1962) 10. Traversing The Evil Within (1971) – Transnational aspirations, Gender, Infrastructure in a post-war Asia PART III Media Geographies, Agencies and Technologies 11. Habits and Worlds: Malayalam Cinema’s Travels with the Gulf 12. Celluloid Visions in a Video Frame: Bhojpuri Cinema between Insurrections and Catharsis 13. Mixing Industrial Elements, Generating Sexual Agency in Aiyyaa 14. Blurring the Boundaries Between Hollywood and Bollywood: The Production of Dubbed Films in Mumbai” 15. Making-of Videos: Of Placeless Studios and Pioneering Music Directors 16. The Materiality of Digital Footprints: Video industries, media networks and the “located mobility” of Malegon films