{"id":62766,"date":"2024-03-22T20:32:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/mar\/22\/brazen-propaganda-pro-modi-films-flood-bollywood-before-india-election"},"modified":"2024-03-22T20:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:32:51","slug":"brazen-propaganda-pro-modi-films-flood-bollywood-before-india-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62766","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brazen propaganda\u2019: pro-Modi films flood Bollywood before India election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some releases promote the PM and his policies while others are accused of being divisive and Islamophobic<\/p>\n<p>They are films that claim to tell the \u201creal story\u201d of India\u2019s history, taking aim at the evils of \u201cleftists\u201d and \u201cintellectuals\u201d and even the freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p>As Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) seek a third term in next month\u2019s election, a feverish pro-government momentum has gripped Bollywood, blurring the lines between entertainment and political campaigning in India\u2019s largest film industry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/mar\/22\/brazen-propaganda-pro-modi-films-flood-bollywood-before-india-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some releases promote the PM and his policies while others are accused of being divisive and IslamophobicThey are films that claim to tell the \u201creal story\u201d of India\u2019s history, taking aim at the evils of \u201cleftists\u201d and \u201cintellectuals\u201d and even the freed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[505,71,69,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-narendra-modi","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\/62766","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62767,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62766\/revisions\/62767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}