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Filmmakers Hansal Mehta, Sudhir Mishra, and Pritish Nandy on Monday stressed upon the urgent need to band together against relentless targeting of the Hindi film industry after director-producer Prakash Jha and his crew were attacked.
As per reports coming in, Bajrang Dal workers vandalised the sets of Prakash Jha’s Aashram 3 sets in Bhopal. Read on to know more about it.
It is not the first time that a film's crew has faced such attacks. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Jaigharh set for the shooting of 2018 film 'Padmaavat' was vandalised by a fringe group. They had also assaulted the filmmaker.
The Producers Guild Of India has condemned the violent attack on Prakash Jha and the crew of Ashram 3 in Bhopal. They have asked for immediate and strict action against the attackers.
Aashram offer more honest and rooted representations of Dalit communities, but not entirely without a Savarna gaze. Mainstream popular culture has usually endorsed and furthered the cultural interests of the social elites only. Consequently, the representation of the Dalit–Bahujan communities in cinema and television has often been stereotypical. Thanks to online streaming platforms, this pattern is now seeing a slow but visible change with stories that depict realities of caste-based social relationships. Prakash Jha’s Aashram (2020) foregrounds a promising set of Dalit characters, o...