Brotherly Hands across the Cricket Pitch : Lagaan as Gandhian Post-Colonial 'India'

DOI IR Web Site Open Access

Bibliographic Information

Other Title
  • クリケット ピッチを超えた友好 : 『ラガーン』にみる植民地独立後のガンジーの理想とした「インド」
  • クリケット ピッチを超えた友好 : ラガーンにみる植民地独立後のガンジーの理想としたインド
  • Brotherly Hands across the Cricket Pitch : Lagaan as Gandhian Post-Colonial "India"

Search this article

Description

The 2001 Bollywood film Lagaan is a parable of the fall of the British Raj that unfolds in the drama of a cricket match between colonizers and colonized. The protagonist, an Indian villager named Bhuvan, embodies the iconicity of the Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar and the nationalist and inter-communal ideology of Gandhi. Set at the end of the 19th century, the deeper discourse of the film constructs an ideal post-Independence 'India' in which Gandhi's ideas, far from dying with his assassination and the horrors of Partition, have been fully implemented in the imagined new order. The fantasy of this Gandhian idyll, however, is problematised by the film's treatment of the non-Hindu minority communities-the Muslims, the Sikhs and the outcaste Dalits-particularly when considered in the broader context of the rise of Hindutva fanaticism and communal violence in present-day India.

Journal

  • 言語文化

    言語文化 11 (4), 493-514, 2009-03-10

    Doshisha Society for the Study of Language and Culture

Keywords

Details 詳細情報について

Report a problem

Back to top