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Omar Ahmed
Omar Ahmed is a UK-based film scholar. He is currently completing a Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, funded by the Arts, Humanities and Research Council (AHRC), focusing on Indian Parallel Cinema. He published his first book Studying Indian Cinema (Auteur/CUP) in 2015, an extensive exploration of Indian cinema through fourteen key films. He also contributed to The Directory of World Cinema: India (Intellect, 2016) and recently published a chapter on Sholay (1975) in Unbridling the Western Film Auteur (Peter Lang, 2018). He has written the first monograph on RoboCop (Constellations: Auteur/CUP, 2018) and curates ‘Not Just Bollywood’, a regular season of South Asian films for HOME in Manchester.