Bollywood votes: Cinema in the shadow of elections
Live MintNothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come, except when everyone has the same idea. “It’ll enter your home, and it’ll kill you too.” Earlier this week, the BJP dropped a minute-long, military-themed video featuring the Prime Minister that begins with “This is new Bharat.” A lean, focused alternative to the maximalist action favoured by star vehicles, Uri has had an outsize influence on the Hindi cinema of the past five years. 'Article 370' Aditya Suhas Jambhale’s film is about the abrogation of the erstwhile Article of the Constitution that allowed for “special status” for Jammu and Kashmir. Politics has become inescapable.” She points out how Siddharth Anand in his action films War and Pathaan succeeded in “troubling the idea of the enemy”, but didn’t in the more strident Fighter. At a rally in Ballari ahead of the Karnataka state election in May last year, the Prime Minister said the film had “exposed terrorist conspiracies taking place in the beautiful state of Kerala” and that “the Congress is striking backdoor political deals with people with terrorist tendencies”.
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