Even after its recent stand, the Hindi film industry needs to keep watching the channels that have attacked it & persecuted its women actors.
Why?
Not to see what the channels are saying, but to see a clear picture of what #Bollywood itself is expected to become. (1/7)
Why?
Not to see what the channels are saying, but to see a clear picture of what #Bollywood itself is expected to become. (1/7)
(2) Basic principle: The new extremist movement first asks for compromises from industry players. Then it coerces / co-opts them. But the endgame is to destroy existing players & rebuild the industry from its cadre.
Why coerce the film industry, when you could possess it?
Why coerce the film industry, when you could possess it?
(3) This endgame is close for India's 'news' TV. You can see the English broadcasters strung down a gradient: From accommodation, to compromises, to co-option, to full possession (you-know-who at each position.) The game is rigged so they keep moving, or come under fire.
(4) Once an industry has gone far enough, it opens fire on the next industry. This season of televised denunciation was that: a captured 'news' TV industry chasing Bollywood down the same gradient, toward its own complete capture.
(6) But it may have been premature - it gave away the game. Which is not to win compliance from an autonomous creative industry, but to wipe it out, and rebuild it in-house.
Maybe film producers have realised that. But court injunctions against two TV networks won't change it.
Maybe film producers have realised that. But court injunctions against two TV networks won't change it.
(7) No matter how bizarre the televised slander of Bollywood, everyone in the film industry needs to keep watching.
What they are seeing is what they're meant to become. It's the image their own industry will be rebuilt in – to then do the work of slandering others.
What they are seeing is what they're meant to become. It's the image their own industry will be rebuilt in – to then do the work of slandering others.
(Contd.)
Some good reporting from inside the industry, by @tallstories @alakasahani:
"A lot of the people being hit now were a part of that selfie… You can’t pick up the phone and tell Modiji, I was in the selfie, why is my wife being targeted.”
indianexpress.com/article/entert…
Some good reporting from inside the industry, by @tallstories @alakasahani:
"A lot of the people being hit now were a part of that selfie… You can’t pick up the phone and tell Modiji, I was in the selfie, why is my wife being targeted.”
indianexpress.com/article/entert…
(8) That future industry won't just be doing chamcha biopics à la #VivekOberoi, or "घर में घुसेगा भी और मरेगा भी”, or epic Islamophobic fantasies. All that's just the start. Where it ends is a darker place than we can yet imagine. Only news TV hints at how dark.
(9) Sharp follow-up thread here. But in the final tweet, "en-route for a Hindutva takeover" still doesn't convey where this particular train is headed: the intensity of extremist violence + national undoing that the film industry could be made to justify.
https://twitter.com/namahtuog/status/1316734264776376321
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