Orientalism - Muslims characters portrait Bollywood film
1. • Paper-11. Post colonial Literature
• Name – Dipti Ajaybhai Gohil
• Email number – diptigohil55@gmail.com
• Roll number – 6
• Submitted to- Department of English,
• Maharaja Krishnakumarsighji Bhavnagar university
ORIENTALISM TODAY- MUSLIMS CHARACTERS
PORTRAIT IN BOLLYWOOD FILM
2. INTRODUCTION -
• Orientalism book by Edward said
• Published – 1978
• Define the difference between
East and Wast
• Try to broken stereotypes of the
people
• This book divided in three
chapters-
The Scope of Orientalism
Orientalist structures and
Restructures
Orientalism Now
3. ORIENTATLISM TODAY – ISLAM AS DEMONIZATION---
•
Edward said American most of believing racism so
American said that Muslim world is problematic for
them. So their film and media most of show most crime
behind Muslim world like Oklahoma City bomb blast ,
Edward give his personal experience because he belongs
to Arab and at that time Arab world called Muslims world
because Arab most of people is Muslim.
4. ORIENTALISM NOW
• Shown modern orientalism
• Can we are really free from colonialism?
• Because most of western world mulism or
Islam portrait negative
• But now our Indian Bollywood film also
represent mulism as negative
• So may be we can say that our thoughts
also colonized
5. BOLLYWOOD FILM IN MUSLIM PORTRAIT AS
NEGATIVE LIKE WE HAVE SO MANY EXAMPLES
• Historical movie
• Padmavat
• Lamhaa
• Muslim family image
didn’t portrait better
• Kalank
• Raees
8. CONCLUSION
• Portrayal of Muslims in Indian movies is more negative th
an
Positive.These.movies are considered against the Muslims
and
try to stereotype Muslims negatively notonly in Indian socie
ty
but all over the world. Through the effective medium,Bollyw
ood isdemolishing the Image of Islam and Muslims across t