Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Non-Resident Indian And Person Of Indian Origin, Simran, Family Values
16 Dec 2018
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Film is meant to reach out to indians who don"t live in india. Diaspora- the scattering of people from their place of origin to a new place or places (greek for dispersion), immigrants, refugees, guest-workers, exiled communities etc. Second generation: the children of first, those born in the new country. Ddlj was one of the first films to feature nris or pios as central characters. Inspired an entire genre of bollywood films that are set abroad and focus on the lives of. Prior to this nris and pios were minor, stereotypical characters in bollywood cinema, desperately unhappy and wanting to return home. Or morally depraved outsiders who have fallen prey to the corrupting influence of the west and forgotten traditional values. How does the film challenge stereotypes through raj and his father/ they live in a. Part of the films subtext and the implicit dilemma is how to keep indian traditions alive outside of india.
