Starring: Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore
Director: George Clooney
Rating: ***
The film does not offer any explanations. Instead, it intrigues more.
A new generation of historians are bringing the subject out of the shadow of Marx and Nehru, fulfilling its role of restoring civilisational pride among Indians.
The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of majoritarian chauvinism.
Historiography under previous governments can, and should, be contested. But history that’s being rewritten under the present government is not merely to eulogise some leaders, but also, and more worryingly, to condemn several chapters of the past.
Starring: Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore
Director: George Clooney
Rating: ***