Filming the Line of Control

The Indo–Pak Relationship through the Cinematic Lens

Meenakshi Bharat, Nirmal Kumar

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781136516054
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema, especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between the two countries. It is geared towards arriving at a better understanding of one of the most crucial political and historical relationships in the continent, a relationship that has a key role to play in world-politics and in the shaping of world-history. Part of this exciting study is the documentation of popular responses to Indian films, from both within the two countries and among the Pakistani and Indian diaspora. The motive of this has been to locate and discuss aspects that link the two sensibilities — either in divergence or in their coming together.

This book brings together scholars from across the globe, as also filmmakers and viewers on to a common platform to capture the dynamics of popular imagination. Reverberating with a unique inter-disciplinary alertness to cinematic, historical, cultural and sociological understanding, this study will interest readers throughout the world who have their eye on the burgeoning importance of the sub-continental players in the world-arena. It is a penetrating study of films that carries the thematic brunt of attempting to construct a history of Indo–Pakistan relations as reflected in cinema. This book directs our holistic attention to the unique confluence between history and film studies.

Index

16 December 114

1947 vii, xii, 30, 31, 59, 66, 71, 72, 85, 112, 123, 124, 134, 179, 188 see Partition

1999 134, 191 see Kargil

Aamir Hussain 3

Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyon 11, 195–96

Abhishek Bachchan 29

Aesthetic of realism 4, 5, 14, 15, 16, 19

Aesthetics 4, 15

Ahmed 10, 30

Akshaye Khanna 23

Alexandre Astruc 16

Altman 5

Amar Akbar Anthony 122, 196

Amitabh Bachchan 113, 122, 133

Amrita Pritam 59–62, 65–68

Ananya Bharati 6–7 see Pratibha Advani

Anil Sharma 131

Ansari 9, 11, 13

Anti-Pakistan/i viii, 9, 11, 16, 29, 37, 43, 129, 132, 129, 132, 161, 163, 164, 165 see Pakistan bashing

Anu Malik 23, 28

Anupam Kher 12, 31, 134

Anupama Chopra 13

Anzaldua 42, 55

Ashis Nandy xiv

Asoka 123, 196

Atari 48, 50, 52

Audience xi, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 32, 38, 39, 41, 45, 52, 53, 54, 61, 62, 63, 66, 69, 70, 86, 90, 91, 94, 129, 130, 131

Auteur, auterism xi, 15, 16, 86, 88, 91, 92, 112, 113

Awara 128

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Negotiating the Border
• Drawn Lines
• Rapprochement
• Interviews
• Filmography
• Bibliography
• About the Editors
• Notes on Contributors
• Index