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India’s Bollywood Turns to Hindu Nationalism

Concerns grow that the film industry is in the grip of the far right

Jan 14, 2023
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh

India’s famed Bollywood film industry is freezing out Muslim actors and turning away from entertainment to serve the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s right-wing political goals, critics say, including culturally purifying Indian society and systematically marginalizing minority groups, especially Muslims, driven by a string of Twitt…

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