Editor’s note, Ahmedabad, 23 September, 2011

Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor starer latest bollywood film Mausam is yet another Hindi movie that prominently shows Gujarat riots as part of its story.

Is it the case that you get fund to make a multi crore film on the condition that you portray the things in your story as dictated?

Why every then and now there are multi-crore rupees worth of films produced and released with Gujarat riot as part of the story?

Riot is after all not a thing that entertains!! It is not an in-fashion thing that would attract youth audience!!

So is it for some funding, that they show riot now and then in this film and that film?

It should be understood that while intelligent class generally follow news media, the younger class follow the entertainment media. So you publicize your film with romantic highlights and trailers and when a youth would come to theater spending 100-200 Rs, he would go back with a message that is in agenda of delivery.

Thus popular and mass oriented commercial bollywood industry is important communication tool to create opinion, or to deliver a mute message through the story and the sequences.

Mausam film’s climax is set in the Gujarat riots. In Gujarat, Sonam runs on the streets after her house is burned and Shahid finds and save her! People are dying everywhere and there is utter chaos. Then, they miraculous escape the rioters and Shahid decides to become a superhero. He saves a horse from a burning stable and he becomes his loyal steed. He then climbs up a Ferris wheel and saves an orphan. His paralyzed left hand miraculously becomes alright.

The film also features Babri mosque riots and Kargil war in the backdrop of the main story.

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