Abstract
Indian film industry is one of the biggest film industries in the world which produces highest
number of movies every year. Indian media and film industry overwhelmingly link Islam and
Muslims with terrorism. Especially since 9/11 attacks, the Bollywood have portrayed the
Muslims in stereotypically negative way. After the 9/11 incident, Muslims have been constructed
as distrustful people, terrorists, and antagonists. The study at hand was set out to identify the
overall dimension and nature of portrayal of Indian Muslims in the Bollywood. For the purpose
the researcher opted convenient sampling as a tool of data collection and quantitative content
analysis along with SPSS was used as data analysis technique. Bollywood movies, released
during the year 2016 with Muslims as prominent characters in it, were selected as ample to be
studied. The results indicated that majority of the movie contents contained negative and
stereotypical image of Indian Muslims. Overall findings evidenced that the Muslims were
assigned non-patriotic and antagonistic characters more than the patriotic and protagonist
characters.
Salma Umber, Muhammad Junaid Ghauri, Hassan Nawaz. (2018) Exploring the Image of Muslims in India, South Asian Studies, Volume 33, Issue 2.
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