Abstract

Bollywood is regarded as the leading film industry of South Asia. Pinjar is a Bollywood film, based on a novel. It is having the themes of religious contrasts and cultural differences. This article studies the religious elements of different religions of the Indian sub-continent as portrayed in the film Pinjar. Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism are regarded as three leading religions of Indian Sub-Continent and this article is discussing all three in detail. The traces of all these religions can be traced in the society of the Indian Sub-continent as portrayed in the cinema. Pierce’s Model of Semiotics has been applied on the obtained data from the film Pinjar to get the accurate results. In addition, this article is also drawing the religious elements from the text of the novel.

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