Drawing the curtain: Indian cinema in the Grey Street Complex

In the chapter, Drawing the curtain: Indian cinema in the Grey Street Complex, Ebrahim Essa provides a wonderfully dry and witty account of Indian life and culture in apartheid-era Durban. He focuses on Indian cinema, the kinds of movies shown, and the experiences of going to watch them. He notes the gendered and generational experiences of smoking: ‘men [in the audience] smoked away actively, the rest passively.’

Reference:
Essa, Ebrahim. 'Drawing the curtain: Indian cinema in the Grey Street Complex', in Rob Pattman and Sultan Khan (Eds.), Undressing Durban (Durban: Madiba Press, 2007), pp. 302-308.