By Reya Mehrotra
Lockdowns have been imposed and restrictions are back everywhere. However, stories of folks standing up for every other regardless of faith have been flooding social media. As we step up to aid every other from the confines of our houses, right here are some interfaith Bollywood dramas to watch at home.
Pinjar
The 2003 Indian period drama masterpiece stars Urmila Matondkar and Manoj Bajpayee. It was based on Amrita Pritam’s Punjabi novel of the exact same name. The film depicts Hindu-Muslim riots. Rashid (Bajpayee) is a Muslim man who kidnaps Puro (Matondkar), a Hindu, mainly because of an ancestral dispute in between their households. Soon her loved ones disowns her. Eventually, the two fall in like.
Jodhaa Akbar
The 2008 film by Ashutosh Gowariker starred Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan. It was set in the 16th century and portrayed the romance in between Mughal emperor Akbar and his wife Jodhaa who was a Hindu. Jodhaa is lowered to a political pawn as her alliance is fixed with the emperor for political motives. But their mutual respect grows as they find out to respect every other’s faiths and ultimately fall in like. The film was a crucial and industrial accomplishment.
Veer Zara
Yash Chopra’s masterpiece starred Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta in the lead roles. Veer is an Indian pilot who saves Zara, a Pakistani Muslim, in the course of a rescue operation. They fall in like, but Zara’s conservative loved ones does not accept their alliance. Veer, who comes more than to Pakistan for her, is taken captive by the Pakistani forces and jailed. Years later, when he is freed, he meets Zara and each of them, now old, determine to live collectively.
Gadar: Ek Prem Katha
The 2001 period drama by Anil Sharma was set in the course of the Partition of India in 1947. Starring Sunny Deol and Amisha Patel, the film became the highest grossing Indian film of that time. In the film, truck driver Tara Singh (Sunny Deol) falls in like with a Muslim Pakistani girl Sakina (Amisha Patel) and they get married. However later, she is separated from her loved ones as her father forces her to stay in Pakistan.
Kedarnath
Late actor Sushant Singh Rajput and Sara Ali Khan’s Kedarnath was based on the 2013 Kedarnath flood tragedy that was labelled the country’s worst organic disaster given that the 2004 tsunami. Rajput played a Muslim porter who ferries devotees to Kedarnath, though Khan played the daughter of a Hindu priest. Their relationship is opposed by her loved ones and is place to test amid nature’s fury.
Bombay
The 1995 film starred Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala. Their relationship is met with opposition from their households as he is a Hindu and she a Muslim. They ultimately get married and have twin boys whom they raise to appreciate each faiths and cultures. When the civil unrest unfolds in Bombay as a outcome of the riots in between the two communities, their households come collectively to save their children and every other. The film received crucial and industrial accomplishment and awards like Filmfare and Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration.
Dahek: A Burning Passion
The 1999 romantic drama starred Sonali Bendre who plays a Muslim girl from a conservative loved ones. Akshaye Khanna plays a Hindu boy. When Sabina’s brother Jabbar finds out about her relationship, he kills her lover. Years later, when her daughter falls in like with a Hindu man, history repeats itself as Jabbar goes out to hunt the lovers who have eloped. This final results in a rift in between the two communities.
Ishaqzaade
The 2012 film starring Parineeti Chopra and Arjun Kapoor explores the theme of the Hindu-Muslim relationship however once more, but with a political twist. Parma (Kapoor) tricks Zoya (Chopra) into marrying him for vengeance. Later, she plans to avenge herself and her loved ones by killing him, but they fall in like and elope. This is mainly because their households are political rivals and cannot afford to have their children married as that would adversely influence their political image. In the finish, their households kill the two to steer clear of suffering from humiliation ahead of the elections.
Raanjhanaa
Raanjhanaa starred Sonam Kapoor, Dhanush, Abhay Deol, Swara Bhaskar and Zeeshan Ayyub. Zoya (Kapoor), a Muslim girl, falls in like with Jasjeet, a Sikh boy, in her college. However, Kundan (Dhanush) reveals this to her loved ones as he had been in like with Zoya ever given that he was a kid. The girl’s loved ones attacks Jasjeet and he succumbs to his injuries. This leads to a series of events as Zoya plans to avenge his death and joins politics.