Film: Jai Hind
Year of Release: 1999
Director: Manoj Kumar
Producer: Manoj Kumar
Lead Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Manisha Koirala, Kunal Goswami, Pran, Bindu, Raveena Tandon, Prem Chopra
As Gems of Bollywood has pointed out several times, Bollywood has a disturbing obsession with female nudity. The coterie would prop up any reason to strip a woman off her clothes, including the sickening rape-as-therapy ploy ‘Jism Ki Garmi‘.
Watch this scene from Jai Hind (1999), for example. Shilpa Shirodkar’s character ensures illumination for surgery (to save her beloved hero) by removing all her clothes and burning them in the operating theatre.
This act was absurd, considering the nurse had a battery-operated torch with her all this while.
Wah re Bollywood!
— Gems of Bollywood Fan (@FilmyKhichdii) March 17, 2023
I watch how Bollywood engages with and represents Hindu society. A non-Marxist film critic writing in English.
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