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Journal of Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology Issn No : 1006-7930 Conflicts and Crises of Journalism and Media in ‘Dil Se’, the Bollywood Movie. Author: Bishwa B. Behura, Research Scholar, Guide – Dr Geetali Tilak Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune. Abstract: The current paper aims to study on the role of media and presentation of crisis communication in movies. Movies play an important role in creating morals, etiquettes and principles of life. It is an advance version of drama. Film industry is one of the major media of current era, which focuses on several current issues as the part of the movie theme. ‘Dil Se,’ is the Bollywood movie, which is screened at the Era New Horizons Festival and the Helsinki International Film Festival. This film is honoured as the first Indian film amongst top ten in the United Kingdom. Moreover, it was a hit in Japan also. The plot of the movie wonders around the media i.e. All India Radio in which Amarkant Varma(Role Played by Shahrukh Khan) is the hero of movie. He is working as program executive for All India Radio. The story of ‘Dil Se’ moves around the theme of attraction, infatuation, love, reverence, worship, obsession and death. This film has two parts as attraction between a character from the heart of India and a peripheral state & a representation of opposites in the eyes of the law and society. It is based on the theme of terrorism, patriotism and role of media with current life. As we all know, media is always a part of conflict and crises in the Indian society, due to their presentation and communication, the researcher feels a need of study on it. Hence, current paper is an attempt to focus on the communication crises of media and journalism and its impact on the life of India, with special reference to the Bollywood movie ‘Dil Se.’ Keywords: Dil Se, conflict, crises, journalism, All India Radio, media, communication etc. Volume XII, Issue II, 2020 Page No: 126 Journal of Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology Issn No : 1006-7930 Introduction: Amar, the hero of the movie, Dil Se’ is working as an employee in All India Radio. He is the representative of journalist of India. ‘Dil Se’ is the path-breaking Bollywood movie which is written and directed by famous director Mani Ratnam. It is produced by Ratnam, Ram Gopal Varma, and Shekhar Kapur. There is conflict of love in this story as there is one hero and two heroines i.e. Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and PreityZinta. Manisha Koirala is leading heroine in the movie while PritiZinta is featured as supportive actress. The roles and actors of this movie are explained in the below table: Sr.No. Character Casting By 01 Amarkant Varma- Media Shahrukh Khan representative 02 Moina/ Meghna – suspicious Manisha Koirala charterer or tersest 03 PreetiNair – pliancy of Amer PreityZinta 04 Mita - MitaVasisht 05 Kanval Dev Burman - ArundathiRao 06 Shuklaji Raguveer Yadav 07 Amer ‘s grandmother Zohra Sehgal 08 Taxi driver Jaganraj 09 Terrorist leader Gautam Bora 10 Terrorist SabyasachiChakrabarty 11 Terrorist Aditya shrivastav 12 Terrorist Sanjay mishra 13 Terrorist Anupamshyam 14 Terrorist ShabbirMasani 15 Kim terrorist Kishan Kant 16 Terrorist ManjitBawa 17 Amer’s mother Sheebachaddha 18 CBI investigation officer Piyush Mishra 19 CBI investigation officer Gajraj Rao 20 Young Monia PriyaParulekar Table 1.1 casting and Characters of the Movie Dil Se Volume XII, Issue II, 2020 Page No: 127 Journal of Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology Issn No : 1006-7930 As shown in the above in table 1.1, the casting and characters are connected with All India Radio- the media Sector of India, terrorists, military, CBI and common life of North East, Delhi and Kashmir. The Major Theme of Movie ‘Dil Se’: The theme of this movie is based on the worst reality of North East Life, North East politics and the sexual harassment of a girl at early age by military which is the real part of protection of citizens. The film shows that due to military atrocity and rape in those areas, a girl has converted into terrorist and even lost the smile of her face. The major theme of movie wonders with few following factors which are given in the below image number 1.1 Death Reverence Worship Obession Attraction Love Infatuation Image 1.1 The images showing major theme of movie Dil Se As shown in the above image 1.1, the Bollywood movie has major seven themes as Attraction, love, infatuation, reverence, worship, obsession and death. This is somehow a different movie in which the community crises, political crises and crises created by media are reflected by Mani Ratnam. This film is known by few scholars as Anti-national film.’ They called this movie as Anti-national film with rising a question as- how an army officer’s son working as a government employee can fall in love even with a self-annihilating terrorist girl who is the part of suicide bomber team of North East. Volume XII, Issue II, 2020 Page No: 128 Journal of Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology Issn No : 1006-7930 The Plot of Film ‘Dil Se’: Amarkant Varma who is the hero of Movie ‘Dil Se’ is working as a program executive for All India Radio. He dispatched from New Delhi to Assam with the aim to cover festivities and produce news for All India Radio in the occasion of celebration of a special program on 50th year of independence of India Amar’s Love Story Starts at Railway Station: As per his defined goal to reach at Assam, Amar stops at Haflong train station to catch the Barak Valley Express. During his journey, he met with a heavily raining night. He feels cold due to heavy rain. As he is a smoker, he tries to have a smoke but he couldn’t as he does not have a matchbox with him which he forgot to carry. He saw a person with a shawl sitting at a distance to whom he asked about a match or lighter. When he went close to the person, he found a woman who was very attractive. Here the love story of Amar starts. The lady ignored him initially. After his lots of efforts, she got ready to have a cup of tea with him. As he came with a cup of tea, he saw her boarding in the next train with three male passengers and rides off into the distance. Amar’s love for her make him so crazy that he didn’t give up to follow her, though he is bitten a lot almost to death. Fortunately, he is saved. His marriage took place with Preeti Nair, a different girl at Delhi. At the end of Movie, he came to know about the plans of Meghna, to whom he met in All India Radio Service that she is a terrorist and working as revolutionary from her side. She was raped by military at the age of twelve. But at the end of movie, Amar and Meghna both died with bomb blast and saved all Indian Army who were present in the celebration program of 50th anniversary of independence of India. Communicating Crises in the Movie ‘Dil Se’: This research study found several types of communication crises in the Bollywood movie ‘Dil Se’. Few of them are explained below: a. Social Crises about Freedom and Development: Amar, the hero of Movie is a program executive officer at All India Radio. Furthermore, he is the son of an Army Officer who lost his life in service to the Nation. When he talks with North East people, we found how they are having faithless approach towards the central government of India. They replied that who said we got freedom and we are living in an independent nation. We are yet suffering a lot and living under the fear of terrorists. This shows the political climate and political crises in the lives of North East people. Volume XII, Issue II, 2020 Page No: 129 Journal of Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology Issn No : 1006-7930 They are not having good and faithful feelings towards Indian Government. They get angry on a program executive officer of All India Radio who asked questions to them regarding their life as an Indian citizen, living an independent life in free India. He met tea-garden employees on board at Barak Valley where we found these workers are also disappointed as they are stating that they had no freedom to disillusioned liberationist. Moreover, they expressed their harsh feelings with demanding the blood of Indian Government. b. Crises in journalism and press about Terrorism: This is the major conflict in the movie Dil Se. Amar reached to Assam's Barak Valley to cover a special program on 50th year celebration of India’s independence. When he visited there, he wanted to meet the terrorists located and situated nearby this location. His boss is a lady at Assam's All India Radio Station. He asked her about her own experience of meeting to terrorists. He asked her about whether she has any meet with the terrorist groups. Her answer shows the truth of media and employees of journalism field as they are very insecure about themselves when they go to find the reality exiting in the society. She replied as why she should meet the terrorists as she has two daughters and she herself wanted to keep safe with her family. This conversation between Amar and the Director of All India radio reveals here the real picture of insecurity and feelings of fear of life that journalist and employees working in the field of journalism feel about their professional duties in the time of crises.
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