Unpacking Hindi cinema’s Muslim representation

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui’s ‘Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema’ is a passionately argued monograph on a tricky subject.

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui must be lauded for writing Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema: Poetics and Politics of Genre and Representation – an excellent, passionately argued monograph on a tricky subject. Though the subject has been handled in articles and book chapters, a full-length study requires some courage and a strong ethical stand to be attempted in our time.