The Hindi film industry is popularly known as Bollywood. Though Bollywood is based in India and its primary audience is Hindus, it is alleged that its loyalties are with Pakistan and the Muslims. In one of its most popular, time-honored cult movies, Deewar (1975), Bollywood presents its Hindu protagonist as a strong atheist who doesn’t enter a Hindu temple, doesn’t consume the offering of the deities, and abuses the Hindu deity to his heart’s content. The same atheist sports the Islamic number 786 engraved on a metal plate and expresses his reverence towards it throughout the movie.
While the naïve Hindu audience made this film a commercial success in the 70s, they had no idea how it planted the idea of “Hindu gods bad, Islamic values good” in their subconscious. This was the ideology they would now be carrying and passing through generations, albeit inadvertently. The then Hindu population, largely secular, liberal, and relatively less-rooted in religiosity, was, thus, slowly and steadily pushed toward Islam by one of the significant cultural vehicles of the Indian subcontinent.
Bollywood’s disdain for Hindu beliefs was so strong that they altered the name of a revered Hindu deity, Ram, into the caricature of a stupid servant serving the affluent Hindu families named “Ramu.”
For decades, through their movies and life choices, they shamed Hindus for performing their rituals and promoted Islamic rituals, regardless of the logic or the lack thereof. They have criticized the Hindus for offering a little milk to their deity on a particular day, citing “wastage” while carrying chadars worth thousands on their heads to put on a long-dead Muslim “saint” buried in an Islamic shrine. Ahead of every Hindu festival, Bollywood celebrities humiliate Hindus for setting off fireworks or playing with colors, claiming that these activities “scare” animals. At the same time, on Eid, they send out good wishes and messages of love and happiness, while cherishing animals on their plate. Bollywood Muslims labeled Hindu festivals such as Karwachauth and Rakshabandhan misogynistic because a wife or a sister prays for the well-being of her husband and brother, and glorified Qur’an-based Islamic practices such as Nikah Halala, in which a divorced Muslim woman is forced into sex with another man to become eligible for her ex-husband to take her back (cf. Qur’an 2:229-230). They have glorified Sufism and bastardized the existence of non-Muslims by repetitive kafir-shaming through music and dialogue.
Bollywood, through its films, had desperately tried to whitewash Islamic crimes as serious as jihad terrorism. Following every act of Islamic terrorism, they hurry to make a movie presenting Muslims as the hapless, defenseless, persecuted victims in India and outside. After Islamic jihadis torched the Sabarmati Express, killing over 50 Hindu devotees and prompting the infamous 2002 Gujarat riots, Bollywood made films such as Firaaq, showcasing the fabricated victimhood of the Muslims in India. The country struggled to recover from the deadly 2008 Mumbai blasts. The Mumbai-based film industry released Kurbaan in 2009 to present Islamic terrorists as the real victims and not perpetrators of terror, thereby fooling one of the world’s largest populations into sympathizing with them. Working with the 9/11 attacks as the backdrop of their plots, films such as My Name is Khan and New York painted American Muslims as the ultimate victims of white hate and bigotry, almost whitewashing the Islamic acts of terror. A famous filmmaker with a history of sharing a stage with terror-accused fugitive Islamic propagandist Zakir Naik had met the members of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a USA-based Islamic organization that provided a platform to Kashmiri separatists and supported anti-India movements, to gain a better understanding of the discrimination and harassment that Muslims in America allegedly face.
Though hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Hindus were brutally raped and/or killed and driven out of their homes in the 90s by Islamic jihadis, Bollywood movies such as Fanaah, Haider, and Mission Kashmir always portrayed the pro-separatist militants in Kashmir as charming and benevolent heroes wronged by the Indian government, army or other institutions, often, if not always, justifying their violence.
One can no longer deny the existence of Love Jihad in India, an evil practice often known as Grooming Jihad. Bollywood films have played a vital role in promoting Love Jihad and pushing Hindu girls toward Muslim men who force them to convert and sometimes get them gang-raped or killed. When actresses Sharmila Tagore and Amrita Singh were made to convert to Islam after marrying their Muslim husbands, no feminist in the industry questioned this.
Some Bollywood personalities have alleged links with the Islamic dons of the underworld who planned jihad attacks in their cities. As per reports, Dawood Ibrahim had ruled Bollywood and called the shots from behind the scenes for years; he had financed films, made or marred careers, and even got dissident film-makers killed. And yet famous industry members admitted to having paid cordial visits to him and referred to him with polite salutations.
In the past couple of years, the Hindu audience has finally had its long-awaited awakening; it would be unfair if we don’t give the ruling party its much-deserved credit for this. After the BJP assumed power in 2014, many Bollywood personalities hiding behind a frail secular veneer bared their Islamic fangs. With no knowledge of the matter, they protested every Act or Law introduced by the government, made ill-informed comments, abused Hindus, cried victim and then dug their heads in the sand when Muslim rioters slaughtered innocent Hindus in Kashmir, Delhi or Jhadkhand. Hindus have recognized Bollywood as the pro-Islamic propaganda machine that it is. Thus they distanced themselves from such films and called for a total boycott of Bollywood. The industry has recorded significant losses due to this boycott, but will it mend its ways? The rot runs very deep, and any reconciliation with the audience now appears unlikely.
Raja says
Great article and fact based. Accurate with details. Hope the West takes a cue or two from these bright developments, who are hell bent on taking Marxism too seriously. The govt that currently runs India could have helped the public opinion to sway from thugs who run the Bollywood, who are known for their nepotism, extortion and sextortion. This “renaissance” within Bollywood is also helped by eccentric actress like Kangna Raut and few others who utter some commonsense sermons to people every now and then.
Perhaps Indians were willing to listen or learn about the evil effects of a “great” “religion” but were forbidden by Left and Congress party et al. A case that pops my minds is of 1993. When the riots of Mumbai were triggered following Babri masjid demolition in Dec 1992, Hindus flocked to the refugee camps of Mumbai suburbs, sympathizing (with all possible help) for Muslim riot victims. But when the riots of March 1993 “happened” largely due to an Islamic underworld don people quit visiting the camps. In India people can still discern what is good and what is evil.
Infidel says
One correction, Ashlyn. The Hindi film industry in India is really an Urdu film industry: watch any of their releases, and unless one knows Urdu, one will have trouble following what’s said. Yeah, there are those who claim that the 2 languages are the same but just differ in script, but Urdu includes a lot of islamic terms that are alien to Hindi. When I watched Hindi serials like the Ramayan or Shri Krishna, the language was pretty easy to follow. But whenever I tried watching any Bollywood movie or TV serial, I was totally lost and would give up in minutes, since I don’t know Urdu
The rest of what she wrote is correct. I’m not familiar w/ any of the movies she mentioned, but recently, the Kashmir Files was a roaring success, and so were other movies that showed Hindus in a positive light. Also, some of the leading Bollywood actors, whose anti-Hindu statements or sentiments became prominent recently, have watched their recent movies go down in flames. I used to have a strong disdain for Indians in general due to their heavy addiction to Bollywood, which is really fentanyl of the mind, but watching the boycott of movies pick up over the last month has restored some of my faith in them
gravenimage says
Bollywood, after pushing a pro-Islamic agenda for over 100 years, is finally boycotted
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Good article from Ashlyn Davis–and good to see her contributing here again.
That Bollywood tends to be so Islamophilic is very troubling.
Fitna says
Great article and comments…Hindus in time wrenched their country back from Islamic barbarian invaders/rulers (as well as the British) and it’s time for them to make Bollywood completely their own.
Though expect Muslims to riot if they put out ‘anti-Islamic’ movies, but don’t curtail your freedom to appease a bunch of thugs, bullies, rapists and invaders.
Leftists/Secularists are making the same mistakes in India as they do in the West. At “best” they’re trying to get all the differing religious groups/cultures to get along and at worst, they’ve completely sided with Muslims because they know most Hindus are pretty benign and aren’t going to kill anyone over insults to their religion.
But if there were only one of two options, either Muslims control Bollywood and create problems for Hindus, or vice versa, then so be it, Hindus should take control and whatever happens to Muslims happens, because they have the same planned for their adversaries.
It’s a shame political parties, not just in India but the world over, couldn’t come together and realize Islam is a danger to all of us, including Muslims and the most peaceful way out of it is to ban this disgusting death cult, not one person would have to suffer on either side.
Sadly in the real world, there are evil people on all sides, also cowards and traitors, so this is why the Left and Right can’t unite against Islam and it’s really going to boil down non-Muslims forcing Islam out of their institutions, if not their countries and create very tough laws against Islam/Muslims.
The status quo has obviously failed miserably. As Einstein once said “for evil to triumph, all it takes is for good men to do nothing.” So if non-Muslims want genuine peace, then we all need to unite and defeat Islam in every country.
Anonymous111 says
In France right now on television there is an advertisement for a national lotery focused on heritage. We see a castle setting with a knight in armour and more but the background music is bollywood type and the dancing suggests also bollywood type of movements. It is weird because this lotery is supposed to be about the French heritage not the Indian heritage (because people think Bollywood is Indian and Hindu). But with this article I would think of the promotion of Islam. The national French lotery is government owned and the French government of President Macron wants France to be a region of Europe. And the European Union is nuts about Islam. It promotes it everywhere it can, sprinkling pictures of hijabed women everywhere. So following the dots, Islamisation of Europe includes Islamisation of the region called France and the Globalist French propaganda machine has connections with Globalists’s Indian Islamic propaganda machine. Far fetched? It is pretty far fetched to have Bollywood music and dancing on a French Heritage lotery advertisement.