06-23-2006, 01:36 AM
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Here goes for starters......
The Yash Copra produced Aamir Khan starrer film âFanaaâ provides an updated snapshot on the Bollywood perspective on Kashmir and terrorism. Early Bollywood movies depicted Kashmir as an idyllic Switzerland of India for example in âJungleeâ and populated with exotic beauties like in âKashmir ki Kaliâ. Soon terrorism drove the film producers to Ooty in South India and with liberalization to the real Switzerland and other exotic locales and the depiction of Kashmir as an idyllic place ended.
The Mani Ratnam produced film âRojaâ was a landmark film for it brought home to viewers in India that Kashmir terrorism affected all of them and not only the Kashmiris in particular and North India in general. It made Indian people identify with the national cause in Kashmir. After that films started pointing to the cross border links to the terrorism e.g. âSarfaroshâ, âMission Kashmirâ, âPukarâ etc. The high watermark of such genre were LOC and Lakshya which were based on the Kargil conflict.
Soon after the peace process between India and Pakistan, Bollywood started eyeing export markets and the cross border linkages depiction was dropped. In âFanaaâ terrorists just exist due to local reasons- plebiscite, resentment etc. No outside national support whatever. Yes some helicopters and terrorist controllers are shown but without any nationality.
What is happening is the naming of enemies is being shunned in another peace process move. More subtle is the conditioning of the viewing public to mass whitewashing of the origins of terrorist support.
Fanaa also has another low point of implying that Indian nuclear weapons are somehow vulnerable to falling into wrong hands through infiltration. This is a Leftist disarmament agenda which was not there before. Earlier Leftist themes were about social change in India and some even presented the Naxalite version of society for example âMrigayaâ etc.
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Sigh!Here goes for starters......
The Yash Copra produced Aamir Khan starrer film âFanaaâ provides an updated snapshot on the Bollywood perspective on Kashmir and terrorism. Early Bollywood movies depicted Kashmir as an idyllic Switzerland of India for example in âJungleeâ and populated with exotic beauties like in âKashmir ki Kaliâ. Soon terrorism drove the film producers to Ooty in South India and with liberalization to the real Switzerland and other exotic locales and the depiction of Kashmir as an idyllic place ended.
The Mani Ratnam produced film âRojaâ was a landmark film for it brought home to viewers in India that Kashmir terrorism affected all of them and not only the Kashmiris in particular and North India in general. It made Indian people identify with the national cause in Kashmir. After that films started pointing to the cross border links to the terrorism e.g. âSarfaroshâ, âMission Kashmirâ, âPukarâ etc. The high watermark of such genre were LOC and Lakshya which were based on the Kargil conflict.
Soon after the peace process between India and Pakistan, Bollywood started eyeing export markets and the cross border linkages depiction was dropped. In âFanaaâ terrorists just exist due to local reasons- plebiscite, resentment etc. No outside national support whatever. Yes some helicopters and terrorist controllers are shown but without any nationality.
What is happening is the naming of enemies is being shunned in another peace process move. More subtle is the conditioning of the viewing public to mass whitewashing of the origins of terrorist support.
Fanaa also has another low point of implying that Indian nuclear weapons are somehow vulnerable to falling into wrong hands through infiltration. This is a Leftist disarmament agenda which was not there before. Earlier Leftist themes were about social change in India and some even presented the Naxalite version of society for example âMrigayaâ etc.