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ID184797
Title ProperFilms Division of India and the Nehruvian Dream
LanguageENG
AuthorDadawala, Vikrant
Summary / Abstract (Note)From 1948 to 1994, the newsreels and documentaries produced by the Films Division of India (FD) were a ubiquitous presence in Indian public life. Even as some audiences learnt to avoid sitting through yet another newsreel about the benefits of economic planning, the FD vision of harmonious, planned development continued to haunt the collective unconscious of post-colonial India well into the 1980s. Drawing on examples from documentary cinema, Indian New Wave films, and modern Hindi literature, this article explores three scenes of disillusionment with the FD’s version of the Nehruvian dream. I argue that the FD archive is a particularly productive site from which we can ask uncomfortable questions about the experience of Nehruvian socialism: the ‘illusions’ of the past continue to haunt FD films even in moments of disillusionment, prompting a form of self-reckoning whose full implications can only be grasped now, in retrospect.
`In' analytical NoteSouth Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 45, No.2; Apr 2022: p.220-235
Journal SourceSouth Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol: 45 No 2
Key WordsHindi Literature ;  Documentary Films ;  Films Division of India ;  History and Criticism


 
 
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