Abstract
Contemporary Bollywood Cinema and Politics of Nationalism: A Critical Analysis of Aditya Dhar’s Uri: The Surgical Strike
Highlights
In the present-day context of political instability and growing fear of terrorism, renewed scholarly interest in aspects like nationalism, ethnic assertion, religious fundamentalism is clearly discernible
This is achieved through the creation of the “imagined community” where, as Benedict Anderson has observed, “the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members meet them or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.” (6) it is the sense of oneness or rather “imagination” of the oneness which is the very essence of nationalism
This paper aims to critically analyse the role of Bollywood in instilling nationalism with reference to a very popular Bollywood film of recent times, Aditya Dhar’s Uri: the Surgical Strike
Summary
In the present-day context of political instability and growing fear of terrorism, renewed scholarly interest in aspects like nationalism, ethnic assertion, religious fundamentalism is clearly discernible. This paper aims to critically analyse the role of Bollywood in instilling nationalism with reference to a very popular Bollywood film of recent times, Aditya Dhar’s Uri: the Surgical Strike.
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