{"id":48967,"date":"2022-09-30T23:38:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/sep\/30\/bollywood-under-siege-as-rightwing-social-media-boycotts-start-to-bite"},"modified":"2022-09-30T23:38:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:38:54","slug":"bollywood-under-siege-as-rightwing-social-media-boycotts-start-to-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48967","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood under siege as rightwing social media boycotts start to bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laal Singh Chaddha is the latest film to face targeted attacks from anti-Muslim, Hindu-nationalist trolls who some claim are beginning to impact box office performance <\/p>\n<p>In August this year, a week after the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/aug\/10\/laal-singh-chaddha-review-a-hindi-forrest-gump-no-more-no-less\">Laal Singh Chaddha<\/a>, Bollywood\u2019s adaptation of Forrest Gump, a Twitter account with about 280,000 followers, tweeted: \u200b\u200b\u201c#Urduwood is trending. Thanks to all who have accepted this term to accurately define the anti-national, anti-Hindu paedophile cabal that takes your money to destroy you.\u201d The tweet received more than 1,700 retweets and about 5,800 likes.<\/p>\n<p>For those not familiar with the term \u201cUrduwood\u201d, it is a pejorative popular among far-right social media and politicians. Urdu is an Indian language with a Perso-Arabic script, and the national language of Pakistan; hence it is associated with Muslims and its use is a way to claim the film industry is \u201cHinduphobic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/sep\/30\/bollywood-under-siege-as-rightwing-social-media-boycotts-start-to-bite\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laal Singh Chaddha is the latest film to face targeted attacks from anti-Muslim, Hindu-nationalist trolls who some claim are beginning to impact box office performance In August this year, a week after the release of Laal Singh Chaddha, Bollywood\u2019s ada&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,71,69,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48968,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48967\/revisions\/48968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}