.ishaninath went from loving Bollywood to hating it to loving it again
The year I turned 13, my mum threw me two parties, one for my school friends and one for the collection of Indo-Canadian families that, over the course of Diwali celebrations and Hindi school functions, had become like an extended family. I affectionately called the latter group Browntown, and on my 13th birthday, they gave me a very special gift: a VHS copy of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. With subtitles.
Natasha Ramoutar remembers similar evenings with her parents and grandma. Though we often talk about cultural identity in terms of two cultures, things aren’t always that simple. Ramoutar, whose family is from Guyana, explains that there are multiple pieces of her cultural identity—and Bollywood films like the old-timey, big-budget romantic tragedy Devdas helped shape the part of her that is Indian.
Like me, educator Roopa Cheema grew up in southern Ontario feeling “not-Indian enough for Indian people.” With her brightly dyed hair and piercings, she felt judged—and even at times out of place—within the Punjabi community in her town. Bollywood was a safe space. In Granby, Quebec, journalist Supriya Dwivedi remembers her family being the only Indians in town. Like Cheema, Ramoutar and myself, Dwivedi grew up watching Bollywood films, but when she was a teenager, she started thinking critically about the messages the movies were sending, particularly about the roles of women. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was also pivotal for her, but not like it was for me.
“Bollywood movies are really fun,” she says, noting that these movie nights created a connection to her homeland well before she was actually able to travel to India. “They also have a lot of toxic stereotypes going on, and I feel like it was a really good, formative thing for me that my dad would point those out.”
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