Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Vivek Oberoi, Tushar Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Arbaaz Khan, Amitabh & Abhishek Bachchan,
Director: Apoorva Lakhia
Rating:**
Shows no engagement with the politics of encounter killing, which is its core idea, but glorifies violence and machismo.
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: Sanjay Dutt, Vivek Oberoi, Tushar Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Arbaaz Khan, Amitabh & Abhishek Bachchan,
Director: Apoorva Lakhia
Rating:**