[lbo-talk] London bombing inspired veteran Hindu filmmaker's latest

[Sujeet Bhatt]

On 1/11/06, Ed Marshall <edmarshall3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course he has an Indian mother, she will be Hindu.  There will be a
> patriotic or at least an apolitical or pacifist female Muslim character.
> Probably a love interest.  This character will act as an agent of
> normalization to bring the "bad" Muslim back into the fold of an organic
> national community.  The family will serve as a metaphor for the nation and
> a prescription that defuses the demands of non-hindu communities in India.
> See "Mission Kashmir", "Sarfarosh", and "Fiza".
>

There is a twist in this tale, though: the allegedly "Hindu" director
Mahesh Bhatt has a Muslim mother. I wouldn't hazard a guess about the
mother in the film.

Sujeet