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Hindi film industry, since its inception in the early 1930s, has evolved into the largest film industry in the world with over 1000 films being rolled out every year but at the same time it has always been criticized by the western film scholars for its conventional narrative structures that are very divergent from American or European structures. India has had its fair share of auteurs such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and others who ushered in the 'Indian New Cinema' also known as 'Parallel Cinema' however, it is the avant garde genre in Hindi cinema that hasn't quite got the attention it deserves. While avant garde movement in films started way back in 1920s and 30s in Europe and America but it is not until the 1960s and 70s that Indian filmmakers tried their hands at this art form. It is interesting to note that the American and European avant garde films greatly differ from their conven-tionally structured counterparts which in turn are different from the conventional narrative structures that mainstream Hindi films follow. Therefore, it merits that research is carried out to analyse the unconventional narrative structures in Hindi films known for their experimental or avant garde genre.