...Samhita Sunya By charting a genealogy of prem nagar in this article, from its literary antecedents through its cinematic iterations, the author shows that the referent for prem nagar in film songs is derived from a generalized experience of transit to and within the modern-industrial city...

... of the trope of prem nagar (city of love) in film songs, focuses on the concep- tual issues involved in Hindi cinema’s spatial practices and in imaginaries of travel. While in premodern poetic traditions, prem nagar is imagined as the location...