That is not a typo either. In today’s edition of “It Happens Only in India”, there are reports that Bollywood is planning to make a movie on Adolf Hitler. [Guardian]
Anupam Kher and Neha Dhupia are to play Adolf Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun in a new Bollywood film set in the last days of the Third Reich.
According to reports, the curiously titled Dear Friend Hitler will center on the relationships between the Nazi dictator and those who were close to him, including Braun, his long-term lover who he married in his final days in the Berlin bunker.
Love story in a bunker? “Bunker mein boom boom” would’ve been a more appropriate title.
Anupam Kher who has also played Gandhi on the screen, will perhaps be known as the only man to play both the world’s biggest proponent of non-violence and one of the worst mass murderers of all time. There is another Gandhi angle to this movie. [Letters of Note] [via SM]
September 1st, 1939: Poland is invaded by Germany, resulting in what many believe to be the beginning of World War II. Just over a month before this happens, Mahatma Gandhi writes the first of two letters to Adolf Hitler in an attempt to prevent the oncoming war. This particular letter never reaches Hitler due to an intervention by the government.
Various politicians and celebrities in India often cite Hitler as a role model. Mein Kampf sells as a management book.
We even have Hitler themed coffee houses. Indians don’t hate Jews either. This movie, more than anything, underlines the lack of holocaust awareness even among the educated masses of India, something we’ve lamented about in this blog and I blame the antiquated Science-Math centered education system.
What steps, if any, can we, the Indian-American community community take to grow Holocaust awareness among people in the des?
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