Muslim social

The Muslim social is a film genre in Bollywood that portrays Islamic culture in India. It flourished in the 1950s and 1960s and lasted till the early 1980s. Muslim socials are divided into two categories: "classic Muslim socials" that explore nawabi culture and focus on upper class or elite Muslim families, and "new wave Muslim socials" that portray middle class Muslim families who experience economic problems, discrimination and communal violence.[1] Muslim socials often include ghazals, qawwalis, Urdu poetry and expressions, and musical forms commonly associated with Islamic culture.[2] However, lately the label has also been criticized for cultural ghettoization of minority cinema. Director M.S. Sathyu who made Garam Hava (1973), called it "a skewed way to look at cinema. When there is no Hindu social or Christian social, how can there be a Muslim social".[3]

  1. ^ Allen, Richard; Ira Bhaskar (2009). Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema. Tulika Books. pp. 91–92. ISBN 978-81-89487-53-9.
  2. ^ Babb, Lawrence A.; Susan S. Wadley (1998). Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 151. ISBN 81-208-1453-3. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
  3. ^ "Back with the wind". The Hindu. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.