‘Hindi cinema is a major connective space for Indian and Pakistani viewers…Diasporic youngsters watch it together’
Avijit Ghosh
Avijit Ghosh is a associate editor with The Times of India. He is addicted to films, music, cricket and football—and not necessarily in that order. He is the author of Bandi LESS
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Translator and cultural theorist Meenakshi Bharat taught English at Delhi University.
She talks to Avijit Ghosh about her latest book, ‘Hindi Cinema and Pakistan’, how movies on sensitive themes can become double-edged weapons, they can incense or console.
● Partition scarred India. How does Pakistan appear in the Hindi films of the early post-Independence decades?
Early post-Independence Hindi films reflected the confusion and disbelief that Partition had indeed happened.
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Disclaimer
Views expressed above are the author’s own.
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