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There's been a slew of editorials in prestige publications) about Bollywood's inclusive values and how Modi are destroyed it.
This is the wrong way of looking at it. Bollywood has always broadcast Dilli's politics. In the Nehruvian years, it was secular socialism >>
This is the wrong way of looking at it. Bollywood has always broadcast Dilli's politics. In the Nehruvian years, it was secular socialism >>
After Liberalisation, it was the NRI romance establishing Indian culture in global capitals. In the Modi years, it is Hindu pride in history and the muscular Hindu nation-state vanquishing terror in the capitals of Islamicate: Istanbul, Dubai, Tangiers, Kabul, Central Asia >>
Bollywood exists to broadcast Dilli (= central govt) narrative. Why else do you need a Hindi-language industry in a Marathi land with a Marathi industry?
I have written this in multiple essays. Here is a brief list. How nationalism took over Hindi cinema https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/b59Z5FzoLBr6Ho0hgj3tSL/How-nationalism-took-over-Hindi-cinema.html
I have written this in multiple essays. Here is a brief list. How nationalism took over Hindi cinema https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/b59Z5FzoLBr6Ho0hgj3tSL/How-nationalism-took-over-Hindi-cinema.html
How Bollywood promotes the heroic Indian deep state (spy) service >> https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/bollywoods-love-affair-with-the-intelligence-forces/article26954475.ece
"Why should it matter, this business of women, whether they exist or not? Because it speaks of how public imagination is constructed. Popular Hindi cinema functions as the projection of New Delhi’s imagination"
How Bollywood infantilises Muslim women>> https://www.thepolisproject.com/as-muslim-women-lead-indias-battle-for-democracy-bollywood-presents-them-as-suicide-bombers-the-hindu-state-must-save/#.X4-avtAzbIU
How Bollywood infantilises Muslim women>> https://www.thepolisproject.com/as-muslim-women-lead-indias-battle-for-democracy-bollywood-presents-them-as-suicide-bombers-the-hindu-state-must-save/#.X4-avtAzbIU
How Hindi film constructs Independence, Partition and every major political moment as a male experience >> http://sohinichattopadhyay.com/2019/07/are-independence-and-partition-male-experiences/
How non-Hindi cinema, like Malayalam, Tamizh and Bengali film, shows up New Delhi and Hindi's cultural project of Dilli imperialism http://sohinichattopadhyay.com/2020/05/virus-a-superb-ode-to-shailaja-teacher-and-public-health-and-indias-federalism/
