The Roots of Hindutva, Love-Jihad and Islamophobias Politics in the Hollywood and Bollywood Cinemas
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Hollywood and Bollywood, Islamophobia, Hindutva, Love-Jihad , CinematographyAbstract
The dissemination of American and Indian cultures abroad is largely the result of their respective media. The skill of promoting national pride has been mastered by American and Indian news channels. They have been attempting to better educate their inhabitants through the media as a result of their large populations. The mass audiences of Bollywood and Hollywood media are exploited to disseminate hate speech and misconceptions about Muslims. But certain movies from the Hollywood and Bollywood industries seem to encourage hatred toward Muslims and other religions. Muslims are frequently shown negatively, as barbarians who are vicious, haughty, merciless, and physically and intellectually damaged. They are also frequently represented to be an undesirable part of Indian civilization. The main purpose of this paper is to critically review the international anti-Muslim films being made in the present era. It’s fact that after the spread of Islam in the world, disbelief always tried to bury it, but after the arrival of the truth, falsehood always disappears and is defeated. The enemies of Islam remained in every century, and they lived in different ways. Their goal is criticized Islam and its followers, in books, articles and cinematic films. With the start of making films on the Prophets from 1895, the West reached the heights of fame, then started this goal with its original ambition, which was to bury Islam. The influence of Hollywood can be seen quite effectively on Bollywood as well, in that films based on Islamophobia and films based on Hindutva ideology in India have many elements in common. Behind these films are people who are strongly opposed to the unity of Christianity-Muslim and Hindu-Muslim and want to violate peace and harmony. In this research, they were critically evaluated about films that are engaged in trying to suppress Islam by having negative effects on the society.
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