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Indian film festival to screen anti-Pakistan films
By Khalid Hasan
An Indian film festival is due to be held in Washington from 5 to 10 April, which will include both screenings and a seminar devoted to the “Hindi cinema’s representation of Pakistan.”
The films chosen to be shown at the festival, being organised by the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), all relate to Pakistan and, without exception, can be said to be hostile in content to Pakistan and Pakistanis. The country is depicted as a hotbed of terrorism and intolerant proselytising Islam which has pitted itself against a secular, porogressive and democratic India.
The screenings will be followed by a seminar to be addressed by Ms Tavisihi Alagh, an independent filmmaker who has worked on the production and direction of about 10 films and television programmes in India, the United States and other countries, Ms Ruchira Gupta, president of an anti-women’s trafficking Indian NGO called Apne Aap Women Worldwide and Zahir Janmohamed of the Centre for the Study of Islam and Democracy in Washington.
The movies that are to be screened include Gadar, described as a “period piece set around the events of 1947 and Partition that tells the story of a unlikely romance between a Sikh truck driver and an aristocratic Muslim girl,” starring Sunny Deol and Amisha Patel. There is also Mission Kashmir, billed as the story of a “Muslim police officer and his Hindu wife who adopt the son and sole survivor of a family he (the hero) has massacred while pursuing a terrorist.” The movie depicts Pakistan and Pakistanis as supporters and exporters of terrorism. The movie stars Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan and Priety Zinta.
Also due to be shown is: Sarfarosh, the story of a man who after the killing of his brother and the mauling of his father by Pakistani terrorists, quits his studies to join the Indian Police Service to wipe out his enemies. The movie stars Aamir Khan, Shonali Bendre and Naseeruddin Shah. Another movie being shown is Roja, which is about a Tamil computer specialist who is in Kashmir with his bride on a work plus pleasure trip when he is abducted by militants. The brave wife then sets out to get her man rescued in a region where she neither knows the language nor the people. It stars Arvind Swamy and Madhoo. Pakistan comes out looking like a wild, lawless country run by those intent on pursuing terrorism.
Also on the bill are: Khakhee, the story of a senior police officer on the brink of retirement who is sent on a dangerous anti-terrorist mission in the company of a corrupt senior Inspector and enthusiastic young sub-inspector. The mission consists of transporting
ISI agent Iqbal Ansari from Chandangarh to the Mumbai High Court so that he can be brought to justice. The movie stars Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar. In most of these movies the villain of the piece is the ISI. According to the sponsors of the festival, “Hindi films are a powerful determinant of cultural identity in India. In a country that produces more films than any other, and where campaigning for the upcoming general elections has seen a flurry of political endorsements by film stars, Hindi films have a larger-than-life influence on Indian society.
link: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_3-4-2004_pg9_1
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