ABSTRACT
Hindi cinema has enjoyed the patronage of a larger population in India and occupied a prime position as a popular cultural narrative with the potential to influence the political ideologies in India. In the last decade and a half, people have witnessed an unprecedented rise in historical, faux historical, historical biopics, and period films. In the periodised and linear notion of history since the Enlightenment in Europe, medieval as a term is thought of as the period of comparative unrest between the “golden past” and modern phase. Historical representations frequently reiterate not just dominant cultural ideas and ideologies, but closer scrutiny reveals that popular history represented through these films is a pastiche of conceptions about the world. This extends the argument of the language of historical films feeds on the multivalent nature of everyday life and touches on prevailing conceptions of nation, gender, and sexuality.
