There is a huge social media outrage over Saif Miya and Kareena Bibi naming their newborn after old Jihadi Taimur. The outrage on Twitter is quite understandable considering the fact that this move by the couple is a calculated one to rub insult into the sub-human second-class dhimmies of India, aka Hindus. After all, why would they name their kid after Taimur — a Muslim Jihadi who famously killed 100,000 Hindus in Delhi in one day and made a pyramid with their skulls? Since most Muslims in India are forced converts to the tune of 90% of the population, it is quite natural for the rape descendants to name their kids after their rapists so that they can later claim to be descendants of conquerors rather than the victims.
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Liberal Hindus and their defence
Whatever one may think of liberal Hindus, at least they are true to their principles — they are consistent in their lack of self-respect. Take any typical liberal atheist “Idea of India” type intellectual. They thank the Mughals for massacring Hindus by the millions and putting Hindu women into harems — all because they brought biryani to the subcontinent. These people are expected to lack self-respect. This kind of self-respect-lacking apologia is natural to the liberal Hindu who are quite happy to be sub-human dhimmies to the Jihadi elites. Seeing them celebrating the Jihadis openly mocking the sub-human dhimmies of the subcontinent — the Hindus — is “Idea of India.”
Twitter outrage by supposedly self-respecting Hindus
However, it is the Hindu reaction to this debacle which is puzzling. Many Hindus outraging at this act as if they have some self-respect and are hurt by how Jihadis name their Jihadi spawns. But the question is — do they really have self-respect? After all, these are the same self-respecting Hindu folks who turned PK into a superhit, adore the Jihadi Khans of Bollywood and glorify Pakistanis romancing Hindu actresses in Bollywood films. They are quite proud of this fact when some Jihadi predictably accuses them of being “intolerant” and they gladly prove otherwise by showing their secular certificate.
So the question is — why this double standard? Wouldn’t it be easier if these self-respect-lacking dhimmies outraging at the name of the Jihadi’s son just didn’t waste their time and energy on it? Is it going to change the fact that these dhimmies are going to make the next Bollywood movie featuring a Jihadi another super-duper hit? So when these self-righteous hypocritical dhimmies are not going to make any kind of impact whatsoever, then why whine and prove to the world that all Hindus are just dhimmies lacking self-respect at heart? To a neutral observer watching the drama, the only difference between the supposedly outraged RW Hindu Trend-Veers vs liberal Hindus is that the latter is far more honest about their lack of self-respect.
Maybe Hindu Trend-Veers should come down from their fake moral horse and fake self-respect and start addressing actual problems facing Hindus today — which are much more important for the Hindu cause than how Jihadis in Bollywood or anywhere in the world name their children and future Jihadis. While the shoddy demonetization tragicomedy is destroying the economy, RTE is being enforced with zeal by the Hindu thekadar BJP, and temple money is looted under the watchful eyes of Hindu BJP government in various states for development and healthcare. How Jihadis name their future Jihadis should be the last concern for our Hindu Trend-Veers.
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This is our second article in the series on Bollywood and we find Bollywood fails on almost all standards and is unworthy for the title of national movie industry. It is actually a burden on Indian society and should be either banned or placed under severe censorship for the good of this country. Let’s explore why.
Bollywood glorifies anti-nationals and trashes armed forces
Bollywood has not done any justice to the sacrifices made by our armed forces as it has hardly produced any worthwhile movie to celebrate our veterans. Compare that with how Hollywood — although infiltrated by hardcore leftist Americans — treats their army and war veterans. Hollywood always portrays the wars their government fights as morally right and heroic, even in cases where their government and army has no moral standing to fight like Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam. Compare the number of films Hollywood has made on Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam with the number of films Bollywood has made on the 1948, 1965, 1971 or 1999 India-Pakistan wars. This is despite the fact that the Indian army was the defender and used war as a last resort and had the moral high ground. In fact these anti-nationals — who have no problem completely ignoring the rape and genocide of 1 million Hindus in Bangladesh by the Pakistani army before India intervened in 1971 — are too busy vilifying the armed forces which are facing freezing cold in Siachen and blazing sun in Rajasthan just so that these ungrateful Bollywood anti-nationals can enjoy their self-hatred in comfortable AC rooms and produce movies like Haider where they glorify Jihadists in Kashmir.
Bollywood peddles self-hatred
Art and culture is supposed to show off what is great about our culture and be an inspiration for the masses, but Bollywood does the exact opposite. While movies in the west are busy portraying how their societies are the best in the world — even though they have dysfunctional families, divorce rates and rape rates 20–30 times that of India — all Bollywood can do is perpetuate the stereotype of backward and poor India as perpetuated by the colonialists. Of course, movies made by brainwashed sepoys who are more than happy to be coolies of the west and Islamists could not be expected to produce anything inspirational about India or Indian society. Even their supposedly inspirational films have nothing but scorn and disgust towards Indian society, indicating the self-hatred these people have for Indians. In short, Bollywood is not run by Indians but by a bunch of de-racinated brown-skinned colonialists who have completely internalized the colonial mindset of the imperialists. While western media and films use their films as an instrument to spread their culture, Bollywood uses its status to destroy ours. For example, instead of explaining the values behind Hinduism, Aamir Khan used PK to outright peddle the agenda of monotheistic religions.
Bollywood and its connection to the underworld
It is sad that what is almost an open secret is not being discussed enough in the Indian political scene today — the control Dawood Ibrahim and his underground Islamist goons in Mumbai have had over Bollywood. Many of the Bollywood Khans are known to have houses in Dubai and attend the private parties of Dawood Ibrahim. Is it any surprise that Bollywood acts as a Trojan horse for bringing Urdu into Hindi language and the destruction of indigenous languages like Bhojpuri, Awadhi etc.? And the black money of Dawood Ibrahim is laundered in large part through Bollywood.
Another fallout of this underworld money is that instead of patronising Indian talent and artists, Bollywood finances more Trojan horses from Pakistan in the name of cultural enrichment. Also they have no shame in asking for more engagement and increasing people-to-people contacts while the barbaric army of Pakistan is engaged in killing our soldiers on the border. Not just that — many of them are also fronts for ISI propaganda against India. Why else would they produce films like Haider? Why do you think a country with 80% Hindus has to bear three mediocre Khans as top actors for two decades?
Destructive influence of Bollywood on culture
This is by far the worst aspect of Bollywood. Rather than produce moralistic films which can potentially guide society on a moral path, Bollywood instead produces crass and amoral films which glorify single womanhood, divorces, one night stands, pub culture and alcoholism. Rather than learning from the mistakes done by western society in the name of dating, one night stands, pub culture and divorces, Bollywood is on overdrive to bring the same degenerative culture of the west here.
By glorifying one night stands, breakdown of marriages and discarding the sanctity of traditions, Bollywood wants to create a sexual liberalism here same as in the west. While in theory it sounds great for the young and hot-blooded, in the long run it will cause nothing but disaster. Sex is an important thing in life but so are families, kids and love. By glorifying sex and breakup of marriages, Bollywood wants our women and men to be as individualistic and narcissistic as they themselves are — which will ultimately lead to unhappiness and turn India into a country of favelas. The same men and women who are sexually “liberated” in the west are also the most frustrated, lonely and depression-pill-popping people in the world.
Of course the likes of Karan Johar in Bollywood, being the crorepatis they are, just want to have sex and need a steady supply of partners. What better way to convince themselves that meaningless sex is good for them than glorify it in their movies? What they of course don’t show is that the end result of any such liberalism is abandoned kids and single mothers like in the west.
What’s worse, the few films which do show marriage nowadays also spare no time to mock and ridicule the big and joint families of our culture and prefer to promote nuclear families — an invention of the Christians. Joint families provide stability to marriages and grandparents are usually a very good moral pillar and support for kids in the family. By glorifying nuclear families over joint families, they make sure that grandparents’ love doesn’t reach the child and the grandparents live miserably and alone. Is it any wonder that without grandparents to oversee the children, kids these days are far more prone to self-destruction with drugs?
Finally, the most worrying part is that Bollywood portrays alcohol as great and is even pushing women to become alcoholics. There was a time when alcohol was considered a massively negative social trait worthy of losers who failed in life. Compare that with its glorification in Bollywood today through shots culture. No surprise that alcoholism is on the rise in today’s society. The biggest losers in this game are low and middle income families for whom any money wasted on alcohol is money their families don’t have for basic expenses like clothing, food and education.
Bollywood is not even artistic
Perhaps one would say, Bollywood creates art and one should not be over-critical of its work. But most Bollywood movies are blindly copied from the west or South India and are almost always of pathetic quality. It has no identity of its own today other than being a Hindi/Urdu-speaking version of Hollywood or South Indian movies. Then why does anyone need Bollywood when they can watch the originals which are more interesting than cheap rip-offs? Also unlike South Indian movies — which sell South Indian culture and retain their uniqueness and glorification of traditions — Bollywood again disappoints by desperately trying to be a brown-skinned version of Uncle Tom. So its existence cannot be justified even on the basis of artistic expression or creativity.
Conclusion
If Hindus want to fix their country and society and prevent the rot the western countries are going through, and to prevent further de-racination of the country’s young and next generation, they should ask themselves if the few hours of escapism they get from Bollywood is worth the rust which comes with it. If Dharma has any chance to prevail in our society, Bollywood needs to be banned or fully cleansed of its current rodents.
The year was 2001 and two movies were fighting against each other for setting the industry on fire — Gadar: Ek Prem Katha vs Lagaan. At the end of the day Gadar starring Sunny Deol beat Aamir’s Lagaan hands down in box-office profits as Gadar smashed all the records of that time and sold more tickets than all other movies except Sholay in the history of Indian cinema. Sunny Deol’s macho performance against barbaric Pakistanis probably sealed the deal in Gadar’s favour as the Indian audience preferred it over Aamir Khan’s character of slow cricketer in Lagaan.
The success of Gadar should have given the Indian movie industry a good template to generate profits by kicking the ass of Pakistanis — which they more than deserve and which has historically been proved in all wars post-independence. But this template has hardly been used post-Gadar as Bollywood is more than happy importing Pakistani artists and doing “Aman ka Tamasha”. This sell-out of Bollywood essentially means that they have chosen to close their eyes to all Indian achievements in the past 70 years. Not only have they ignored the past 70 years but there are hardly any movies on our freedom struggle. Given this utter neglect of our history, it hardly surprises that students in JNU can get brainwashed and chant “Bharat ki barbadi tak” slogans, thus disrespecting the spirit of our forefathers who laid their lives for our better future.
Why has Bollywood — which always wants to portray itself as national cinema and ignore local industry — failed to represent this nation of 1.2 billion people? Why is it impossible for it to produce anything which reflects Indian cultural and military superiority? Bollywood is more than happy to copy Hollywood trash, but why does it not learn from it and produce movies to respect our war veterans? It is hard to imagine that Indians would not cherish watching another movie like “Border” based on historical events and stories. Sadly, Bollywood prefers to glorify Jihadis in movies like Haider and act as a fifth column of ISI in creating propaganda against the Indian state.
1. Indo-Pak war (1971)
It is surprising that Indians have failed so miserably to cover this glorious display of courage and capability of the Indian Armed Forces. It broke the back of Pakistan completely and forced it to abandon the idea of direct military confrontation against India. Let’s look at the themes one can explore on this war.
Genocide of Bangladeshi Hindus: If Schindler’s List can be used by Jews for propaganda, no better way to project the plight of Hindus during this war. A movie on this genocide will completely tar Pakistani reputation forever and represent them for what they are — barbarians.
International power play: This war was fought under great international pressure where Indira Gandhi was called bad names by Americans for her courage. Not only did India superbly manage international pressure, it managed to create Bangladesh overcoming all these odds. Is there a better way to portray “Nari Shakti” of India when the US is still struggling to elect a female President?
War theatre: This is such a rich topic to explore. The Indian Army achieved its objectives in such a short period of time and captured 90,000 POW that it is a tragedy that no one ever tried to put it on the silver screen. Operation Trident by the Indian Navy — where they destroyed the Karachi harbour and caused massive damage to Pakistan’s capability — would make such an amazing thriller.
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2. Indo-Pak war (1965)
This was another glorious war effort by Indian soldiers. In the aftermath of defeat against the Chinese in 1962, this war was a huge adrenaline boost for a poor and lost country trying to rediscover its strength.
Genius of PM Shastri: Pakistanis always thought that India is a country of banias ruled by a nobody called Shastri. But Lal Bahadur Shastri showed his true mettle and proved his name Bahadur beyond doubt when he gave orders to march into Punjab to ease pressure on J&K. His death in Tashkent would make another great story and debate to explore.
Battle of Asal Uttar: This was the battle of battles in this war where Indians won by sheer courage and tactics against a much better armed enemy. It was the biggest tank battle post World War 2 — Indians were not only outnumbered but also had old Centurion tanks from WW2, while Pakistan marched with the new Patton tanks supplied by the US. This battle settled the debate once and for all as Pakistan never regained its confidence after it.
3. Kargil war (1999)
This was the first war where Indians saw some action directly broadcast on their TV sets at home. A few movies were made in the immediate aftermath of this war but since then everyone has forgotten it.
Lahore bus backstab: PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee went with huge fanfare to Lahore on a bus to create permanent peace between two hostile nations. What did he get in return? He got backstabbed by General Musharraf who planned the Kargil war while Vajpayee was eating biryani with Nawaz Sharif. This story needs to be told again and again to hammer the lesson into Indian heads — Don’t trust Pakistan!
Mountain warfare: Which other country can boast that they wrestled back peaks at more than 5,000 m by sheer bravery and love for the nation? We would all like to hear the story of Captain Vikram Batra — the “ye dil maange more” guy — on the big screen.
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4. Siachen Glacier
When we are talking about mountain warfare, how can we forget about the Siachen Glacier? Ask any mountaineer about their love for mountains and whether they would like to visit the largest glacier in the world called Siachen — you would not hear a single No. But ask our soldiers who live there night and day and they will explain that it is not a pleasant experience in any way. So why do they live there? For the strength and glory of India!
The history: Learn about the great spy games on how this area became disputed when Indians discovered that Pakistanis were buying low-temperature clothing and boots in large numbers on western markets in 1987 and decided to outsmart them to capture the highest ridges on the glacier.
Operation Rajiv: One can only imagine the nail-biting fight of our soldiers under freezing cold conditions. Isn’t it surprising that no one has tried to make a movie on Param Vir Chakra winner, the legendary Bana Singh, who captured the highest post (6,447 m) on this glacier — later renamed Bana Top in his honour?
War against nature: Indian soldiers hardly care for the weak Pakistanis any more on this glacier. Their biggest enemy is the freezing cold and uncertainty of the glacier. We want to hear their true stories and feel proud of our soldiers of steel.
5. Indo-China war (1962)
Great nations not only remember their success stories — what sets them apart is their appetite to hear about their failures. This war which India lost due to the follies of its leaders should serve as a reminder again and again.
Nehru’s blunders: How India and China went from being best buddies chanting “Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai” to the worst of enemies should be a classic textbook story to tell our kids. The role of Nehru and V.K. Krishna Menon in ensuring India’s defeat should be looked at from a fresh perspective.
Brave hearts: This was one war where our soldiers were heavily outnumbered as well as under-equipped. But what a fight they put against all such odds. PVC winner Major Shaitan Singh still lives among the memories of soldiers serving around the Chushul area. Old Bollywood did much better in waking up the spirit of a defeated nation by producing “Haqeeqat”.
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Just reading this piece will fill you up with emotions for our brave soldiers, so you can easily imagine what movies on the above mentioned topics can do for the nation. Also, there is no better way to pay homage to our dead soldiers by celebrating and remembering them through popular culture. You too will hate Bollywood now for failing to give Indians a chance to celebrate their unity and courage. But this cannot go on forever and we need to make our voices heard to bring this change in our movie industry. So trend #anti-national Bollywood to take this message further.
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One can charge Rajiv Gandhi with the usual stupidity and naivety that is now being associated with the Gandhi-Nehru family, but there is at least one action which should be credited to the then young Prime Minister of India. What did he do that now sets him apart from other Gandhi family members? It was not bringing computers to India as they would have arrived sooner or later. But it was the fact that he allowed screening of Ramayana on Doordarshan in 1987 to help propagate cultural values among Indians. Whether Rajiv Gandhi himself pioneered this Hindu revival is questionable given that his government first appeased Muslims in the Shah Bano case and only later turned to Hindu appeasement.
But Rajiv Gandhi is not important for this article. What is rather important is to understand the role of mass media in defining cultural values. No amount of public education or newspapers had achieved what Ramayana and Mahabharata achieved through one hour telecast every week for a few years. It rekindled a new life in the Hindu soul that was devastated from the slavery of past centuries. Not only did BJP — a non-Muslim-appeasing party — ride to power on this new Hindu renaissance, but it also led to bringing down of Babri Masjid and changing the passive Hindu bania image for some time. It was very well reflected in the opposition by the leftists who were taken aback by the popularity of these serials. The reaction of the then Director General of Doordarshan, Bhaskar Ghose — a leftist — makes it amply clear:
There was far too much ritual and not nearly enough story. He (Sagar) had used the worst extras he could get, because he was doing it on the cheap.
— Bhaskar Ghose, then Director General of Doordarshan
The leftists are masters at propaganda and know very well the importance of rituals in upholding cultural unity. Bhaskar Ghose — the father of Sagarika Ghose — tried every possible way to kill Ramayana halfway, but sadly for him the mass hysteria around Ramayana had grown out of control by then and was untameable by any official writ. The position of these epics in the Hindu psyche was further cemented by Mahabharat, which aired after Ramayana in 1988.
But why are these events from three decades ago relevant today? They are relevant because even though we have seen the rise of social media, most thoughts are still seeded by the culture as depicted in mass media. The left understands this well and has its foot-soldiers placed in all the high echelons of power. The outrage against appointing Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of FTII (Film and Television Institute) should be seen under this light. Although his appointment like any other appointment can be debated, the high-decibel campaign that was unleashed on him can only be explained by the heartburn of career leftists.
While Hindus are becoming increasingly assertive of their identity and the rise of Rajiv Malhotra and other scholars has given them the required intellectual firepower to support the Hindu cause, mass-media infiltration is going on at a snail’s pace. Intellectual discourse is very important but one can only disregard the influence of mass media at his own peril. Hindus had assertive scholars like Sitaram Goel and Arun Shourie even during the dark ages of early Congress rule, but Ramayana and Mahabharata played a much bigger role in awakening Hindus and building a consolidated Hindu voting bloc for the first time in India. Intellectual discussion will fail to realise its objectives unless it achieves active domination over mass media.
The domination of popular culture is not only important from the point of achieving current political objectives but also to create a sense of cultural unity and prepare future leaders. Popular culture created by mass media is the stepping stone towards developing an ecosystem which will then generate the next generation of pro-Hindu intellectuals. The role of Amar Chitra Katha and Panchatantra stories has been paramount in helping many grown-up Hindus to rediscover their roots after being brainwashed by leftist school books for years. The closest current example of such an effort to capture young minds is the animated series Chota Bheem, whose character is partially lifted from Bheem of the Mahabharata. India has an abundant treasure trove of literature to dig into, but the only problem is that this potential for generating popular mass media has not yet been exploited. Also, unlike Abrahamic religions, Hinduism does not sell victimhood and has many positive stories to tell — many superheroes who would give Batman and Superman a run for their money.
After having understood the benefits of infiltrating mass media, the only analysis that remains is to look at the current state of Hindu representation in mass media. While on the intellectual front one can boast about Rajiv Malhotra as one of the guiding forces, there are hardly any popular figures to recount on the mass media front. There are many right-leaning media personnel but most of them restrict themselves to economic libertarianism without much sympathy for Hindu identity. Zee News has finally started to push an alternate narrative on the news front but it is almost impossible to find pro-Hindu voices in the movie industry.
Anupam Kher is making a lot of noise lately but he plays by the rules of the left and does not command the same fan following as the Khans. Given the complete dominance of the Khans in Bollywood for the last two decades, does it come as a surprise that Hindus are forced to gulp down the insults to Hindu icons as in PK? The chanting of pro-Azadi slogans in JNU is the manifestation of this loose control that Hindus have had over the Muslim-left dominated popular culture, as amply demonstrated through movies like Haider. Bollywood is often called the national movie industry — but doesn’t it shock you that it hardly brings out any movies that can build national image or cement cultural identity? The stories about our martyrs are on an ignore list while the industry keeps pumping out inane trash glorifying mafias. Also, it is impossible to ignore the demographic damage done by the Khans as they have more or less succeeded in portraying the harmless nice Muslim guy image in popular culture, making girls swoon over Muslim men and become susceptible to love jihad.
So what is the way forward? Well, burning down theatres showing Haider or boycotting Dangal are only short-term measures. The real way forward is shown by S.S. Rajamouli through his epic Baahubali. There is no other recent movie which has portrayed Hinduism in such glory. Given how well it did on the Hindi box office despite being a Telugu movie clearly shows that people are fed up of watching old midgets sold as heroes by Bollywood. If Hindus need to mainstream their culture and make it cool, they need to get their hands dirty and churn out people of all artistic hues. They need more Rajamoulis as well as more Amish Tripathis. This movement which has been building up unconsciously for too long should be pursued at a much faster pace and given some covert state patronage. There is no reason to stop and get contented just by erasing the left agenda from school books. PM Modi — are you listening?
