Shonali Bose: It’s not the place to shove nationalism down our throats

Updated On: 13 May, 2023 07:17 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

After she was recently slammed for not standing up for the national anthem at a Juhu theatre, filmmaker Shonali Bose questions flawed idea of patriotism

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When director Shonali Bose went to watch Afwaah at PVR Cinemas in Juhu earlier this week, little did she expect a fracas for not standing up when the national anthem was played before the movie. The filmmaker says she was called “disgusting” and “unpatriotic” by a patron in the theatre. Two days ago, she posted a video on social media, putting forth her response to the episode by quoting Rabindranath Tagore’s famous lines: “Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action, into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.”

Shonali Bose