This article is also bullshit in many other ways...in the fact that he has generalized all indian films as being anti-muslim and anti-pakistani!
Did he happen to see 'Kahaani' which had terrorism as the main theme, and the villains in the story were all hindus. Milan Damji...Gujrati hindu name. Raghavan (the guy who plays the IB Chief)...typical south-indian hindu brahmin name...Sreedhar (the guy who plays the IT Head)...once again, a typical hindu name.
Infact, if anything...one of the main hero's of the film was a character named Khan, who is shown to be intensely loyal to his country.
And the author of the article writes about Sarfarosh as an example! He happily points out that Naseerudin Shah is shown as being a Pakistani Muslim who tries to harm India...but he forgot that one of the main 'good guys' in the film was a character named Salim, who plays a loyal indian citizen, who helps to nab the terrorists!
He then gives the example of 'Fanaa' where Aamir plays a Kashmiri Muslim Terrorist...conviniently forgetting that the character who kills him in the end, after knowing that he is a terrorist, is also a Kashmiri Muslim Woman, who prefers to be loyal to her country than to her husband.
And has he even heard of the film called, Firaaq, based on the Gujrat Riots...directed by a 'Hindu' Nandita Das...literally every hindu character in the film is shown to be negative and every muslim character has been shown in a sympathetic light!
The article is not even correctly written...the suicide bomber in Dil Se is not a muslim...she is an Assamesse HINDU!
Bollywood Films are pretty liberal-minded and moderate when it comes to portraying Pakistani's and Muslims in general! I can only think of very few examples where a film deliberately distorted facts and showed something that was not true!
Edited by poppy2009 - 13 years ago
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