Amrutha Kunapulli is a scholar of cinemas of India, with an emphasis on popular cinemas of south India. Having grown up in Tamil Nadu, India, with its obstinately commercial, yet unforgivingly political, film industry, her cinephilia and scholarship demonstrate a critical engagement with popular and commercial film industries, and their ability to reflect historical and cultural contexts. As such, her work is situated at the intersection of world cinema and popular cinema, and includes engagements with stardom, fandom, digital media, popular culture, and cinemas of the global south. Kunapulli has published in Studies in World Cinema and South Asian Popular Culture amongst other publications. Her first book, Worlding Tamil Cinema, studies the globalist tendencies of twenty first century Tamil cinema and its position in the network of world cinema.