Producing Bollywoodis an in-depth ethnography of the Bombay-based Hindi film industry, more popularly known as Bollywood. Taking readers inside this hugely popular global industry, Tejaswini Ganti focuses on the social world and professional practices of Hindi filmmakers. She contends that the industry is profoundly shaped by their immense distain for the industry and their audiences, and the unpredictability of filmmaking. Ganti argues that, in conjunction with the neoliberal restructuring of the Indian state and economy, the filmmakers' aspirations for social respectability and professional distinction, as well as their efforts to manage uncertainty, have led to the gentrification of the Hindi filmmaking. While industry insiders discuss this process in terms of quality, improvement, and innovation, it has often meant the loss of industry jobs for the poor and working classes. Ganti describes the changes in the industry's production culture, daily practices, and filmmaking ideologies, and she situates these changes in relation to national discourses about legitimacy and taste. By tracing the transformations of the Hindi film industry through a decade of tremendous social and economic change in India, Ganti provides new insights into the effects of neoliberalism on cultural production in a postcolonial setting.