Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh.
Dir by Abhishek Chaubey
Rating: ***
Breaking the image of Punjab that Bollywood has so carefully built
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: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh.
Dir by Abhishek Chaubey
Rating: ***