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Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir on Post Colonialism and how it's observed in the film Lagaan, this film best expresses Post colonialism, through Indian perspective, made by Indians.   Click here to view DilipSir's Blog Postcolonial Theory and Bollywood Films Lagaan :   Lagaan  ( transl.  Agricultural tax ), released internationally as  Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India , is a 2001 Indian  Hindi -language  epic   musical   sports film  written and directed by  Ashutosh Gowariker , and produced by and starring  Aamir Khan , along with debutant  Gracy Singh  and British actors  Rachel Shelley  and  Paul Blackthorne  in supporting roles.  The film is set in 1893, during the late  Victorian  period of India's colonial  British Raj . The story revolves around a small village in Central India, whose inhabitants, burdened by ...

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir on Midnight's Children: Film Adaptation. So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Birth of a Nation, in the Words of Salman Rushdie To do cinematic justice to Salman Rushdie’s novel “Midnight’s Children,” it would take a razzle-dazzle entertainer with Bollywood flair and a literary bent, someone equally at home with comedy and allegory, ghosts and little snot-nosed boys, Indian history and Indian myth. In short, through some kind of hocus-pocus abracadabra (Mr. Rushdie is fond of pileups and lists without commas), a directorial equivalent of the author would need to be conjured. But there’s little magic and even less sense of the storyteller as magician in the modest, respectful adaptation directed by Deepa Mehta, a filmmaker whose socially engaged naturalism seems a mismatch with Mr. Rushdie’s gleeful too-muchness. Still, Mr. Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay (and does the cu...

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. DilipSir in thinking activity about Post Colonialism and how it can be understood in a better way through studying the film Rang De Basanti. So read, understand & enjoy. Happy Learning! Click here to read Sir's Blog "Sab apne apne raaste nikal jayenge, College ke gate ke iss taraf hum life ko nachate hai teh duji taraf life humko nachati hai." By Aamir Khan Rang De Basanti  ( transl.  Paint it saffron) is a 2006 Indian  Hindi -language  drama film  written, produced and directed by  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra , and co-written by  Rensil D'Silva . The film follows a British film student traveling to India to document the story of five freedom fighters of the  Indian revolutionary movement . She befriends and casts five young men in the film, which inspires them to fight against the corruption of their own government. It features an ensemble cast consisting of...