Looking Beyond the State-Centric Discourse: Bollywood Movies and India Pakistan Relation Vaishali Raghuvanshi, Research Scholar, Department of International Relations, South Asian University. India Pakistan relation holds considerable significance for whole of South Asia. In brief, discussion on South Asia remains incomplete in case we ignore these two neighbours. Considering their relevance for South Asian region, there have always been myriad attempts to understand the India Pakistan relationship. In this regard, it is notable fact that most of the popular works on India Pakistan relations are grounded in traditional state centric understanding of International Relations (IR). This draws our attention towards the necessity to go beyond the statist and structuralist understanding of traditional IR. In view of this, there is a scope for analyzing the relationship between these two neighbours from a popular perspective. This can be done by examinin...