Seventy-five years back, at a cul-de-sac between tradition and modernity, Indian cinema pushed boundaries to devise new meanings out of life and via creative pursuits. Seventy-five years later, Indian cinema is at a brink to cross over to a post-modern vision of life. By exploring seventy-five films in the last seven decades, this book intends to echo the shift in India's socio-political condition as reflected in its fictional cinema.