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Harsh Mander: How Nazi cinema finds a reflection in Hindutva films https://scroll.in/article/1084162/harsh-mander-how-nazi-cinema-finds-a-reflection-in-hindutva-films?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-intl   Hindutva cinema of the Modi era is a new incarnation. Not because these films are political. As I emphasise, films have contained political and ideological messages in the past as well. But because, like the cinema of the Nazi era, Hindutva films not just completely unmask their bigotry, they flaunt it. They shed any residual scruples of at least making a pretence of adhering to truth. Instead, they brazenly falsify both history and contemporary events to advance their divisive ideological project. The tone of the films is shrill and unapologetically hateful.