Representation of islamic identity in bollywood movies

1. Representation of Islamic Identity in Bollywood
movies :-
Heerva Bhatt
M.A. Sem.3
Smt.S.B.Gardi Department
of English, Bhavnagar.

2. Representation of Islamic Identity :-
• Hindi films have wrongfully portrayed the Muslims.
• The problem of an increasingly ‘missing –Muslim’ can be
found in an Era of libaealization and
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• The Sachar Committee’s findings speak volumes about the
plight of Indian Muslims.

3. • B.R.Chopra’s Dhool ka Pool (1959) where we find a Muslim
Falkirk bringing up a little infant whose religion he does not
know and sings,
Tu Hindu banega na Mussalaman banega, insaan ki aulad
hai insaan banega.
• The illegitimate child abandoned by his mother for fear of
social ostracised, turns out to be Hindu by birth and this film
is one of the first mainstream films in Hindi to strongly
recognise the secular identity of an Indian.

4. Vishal Bharadwaj would
be inspired by Macbeth
to make two Muslims
centric films like Haider
and Maqbool , where
Haider is placed very
topically within the
unrest in Kashmir with
the dramatically titled I
favour of the mother
who,unlike in the
original,is martyred by
Bharadwaj ?

5. The strong presence
of the Muslim, man or
woman in Hindi cinema
can be traced back to the
1920s when a then-
homogenous Indian
audience throughly
enjoyed fictionalised
“historical” romances like
Anarkali
(1928),Noorjehan
(1923),followed by Sohrab
Modi‘s thumping hit Pukar
1939).

6. My name is Khan :-
• Sharukh Khan‘s My
Name is Khan was shot
entirely on American
Soil.
• No one even listenes to
his complete sentence
when he says, “MY
Name is khan and I am
not a terrorist.”

7. Holiday:-
• Holiday : A Soldier is
Never off Duty is a
2014 Indian action
thriller film written
and Directed by A.
R.Murgadoos, and
produced by Vipul
Shah.
• Head of sleeper
seles as Muslim-
Shadab Ali Farooqui

8. Conclusion:-
The construction of
the Muslims as a Monster has
proved to be omnibus for the
societal fabric that has been
torn asunder by frequent
conflicts between the Hindu
and the Muslim communities.

9. Thank you .