| Islam and the Media | |
| 20 Jan 2012, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Muslim Themes in Bollywood | |
By Ishtiaq Ahmed November 03, 2011 |
http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamMuslimMedia_1.aspx?ArticleID=6421 | ||
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Friday, January 20, 2012
There is no doubt that the Bombay cinema has on the whole played a very progressive role in upholding the vision of India as a multi-religious, pluralist society. The authors identify four genres of Islamicate cultures taken up in Bombay cinema: the Muslim historical, the Muslim courtesan film, the classic Muslim social and the new wave Muslim social and after. The authors theorise that Bombay cinema has explored these genres in the light of the secular-nationalist state project associated with the Congress-led freedom movement, which came to be known as the Nehruvian state project. -- 
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