Abstract This paper posits that the formula for India's popular cinema (a.k.a. “Bollywood”—the Hollywood of Bombay) has been fundamentally contoured by the psychodynamics of orality, i.e., by the thought processes and personality structures that distinguish a non-writerly mindset and its narrative creations. Analyses of several Bollywood hits from the past halfcentury illustrate how.

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