Faceless: The Bollywood Muslim 'Other' from big story urdu Watch Video
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Description: The idea for this video essay came to me when I was doing research for my MA-thesis. I was reading Rachel Dwyer’s book Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema when I came across an interesting observation she made in her chapter “The Islamicate Film.” According to Dwyer, Hindu practices and beliefs are the ‘norm’ in Hindi cinema and that Muslims occupy the problematic position of the ‘other’. “Hindi cinema continues to use a broad spectrum of variants of Urdu and Hindi, whos