[SKRIVA] Bollywood gör film om Hitler
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:45:06 +0200
Mycket skall man höra, men detta kanske tar priset: Bollywood skall göra en
film om Hitler, "with a positive spin":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jun/11/bollywood-film-hitler
"A first-time Indian director, Rakesh Ranjan Kumar, has announced that he will
make a movie about Adolf Hitler. Dear Friend Hitler stars Indian actors Anupam
Kher and Neha Dhupia as Hitler and Eva Braun, and will focus on what the
director claims was "Hitler's love for India and how he indirectly contributed
to Indian independence. ...
"It aims to capture the personality of Adolf Hitler and his insecurities, his
charisma and his paranoia during the last few days of his life," Kumar says. In
other words, this is Downfall – but with a positive spin. ...
Dear Friend Hitler has not yet been made, and it is too early to say whether it
will be any good or not. What can be said is that the reported comments of
Kumar and one of his producers display a shocking ignorance of historical fact.
Kumar's assertion that Hitler had a "love for India", and his producer's
statement that "if we should thank anybody for Indian freedom, it should be
Hitler", are not merely misguided – they are completely wrong.
The idea that Hitler should be thanked for Indian independence proceeds from
the view that, by weakening Britain, Germany forced it to abandon its empire.
If so, it would be more logical to thank America, on which Britain was forced
to depend for loans after the war, and whose government put pressure on the
British to grant Indian independence. Hitler never supported Indian self-rule.
He advised British politicians to shoot Gandhi and hundreds of other leaders of
the freedom struggle. Repeatedly, he expressed support for British imperialism.
He only regretted that it was not harsh enough. "If we took India," he once
threatened, the Indian people would soon long for "the good old days of English
rule".
Hitler's support of the Indian National Army, a fascist-allied fighting force
led by Subhas Chandra Bose in the 1940s, has apparently persuaded the makers of
Dear Friend Hitler that the dictator loved India. In fact, the Nazi regime's
disgust when Bose became romantically involved with a German woman revealed its
true feelings. Hitler was happy to let Bose's recruits die fighting the
British. But he never stopped believing that Indian people were racially
inferior to white Europeans".
Nämnas kan att Himmler (som var inne på all sorts mysticism) före kriget
skickade expeditioner till Tibet för att undersöka det "ariska" folkets
ursprung. Hitler själv tyckte det var ett strålande bevis för "arisk"
överlägsenhet att 50 miljoner britter kunde härska över 500 miljoner indier
(eller vad befolkningstalen var på den tiden).
Indien är dock inte Europa. Vad vi tar för självklar historik, är inte alls
lika givet i de trakterna (å andra sidan kan nog europeer mycket litet indisk
historia också). Swastikan är t ex en lyckosymbol. Och i näraliggande Sri Lanka
(har jag för mig det var) gjorde ett dammsugarföretag annonser med Hitler som
dammsugarförsäljare. Det finns barer med Hitler-tema (enligt modell: tag ett
känt namn så går det bra för baren). Osv.
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