IIM Rohtak Director Discusses Social Impact of Films with Kashmir Files Filmmaker

Prof. Dheeraj Sharma

IIM Rohtak Director Prof. Dheeraj Sharma shared the stage with Vivek Agnihotri, director of The Kashmir Files, during a Delhi-based event focused on “Movies and Society.” The session emphasized cinema’s evolving role in representing national identity and cultural truth. #DheerajSharma #ProfDheerajSharma #DrDheerajSharmaIIM #DheerajSharmaIIMRohtak #IIMRohtakDirector #VivekAgnihotri #IIMRohtakConference

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00:00I believe films and media and stories and novels and for lack of a better word

00:08propaganda has helped us to become a

00:16superpower not just otherwise but also power in the yearning of people to be

00:22there so therefore if such an event has shaped the minds of the people what can

00:29media not do it can do everything it can create it can create yearning it can

00:37create desires it can allow people to to make choices and think about themselves

00:44and the world at large differently by the way you should know that the country

00:49which lost the maximum number of people in the Second World War was China and

00:52number two was India this is the story of the importance of media so having set

01:02the topic the importance of in the role of media which includes everything stories

01:08movies television books novels fiction nonfiction can shape the world and what

01:16sort of public policy ramifications can be there and what sort of changes we

01:21might want to see going forward is a topic of our day-to-day so I request to

01:26start with mr. Agnihotri can talk a little bit about how we how we have been

01:32reflecting all of this in Indian film industry particularly and how it has

01:36shaped our thoughts and minds thank you thanks a lot very enlightening actually I

01:46would have made more points but always good to sit next to a teacher or a

01:51professor you always get to learn so thanks for enlightening me some beautiful

01:55examples you have given I don't know if you have heard of just to lighten the mood

02:03so Sharak Joshi was a great satirist one of the great writers of India

02:08there's a passage and he said

02:12that why should we win in the Olympics in the Olympics

02:15so he said that we will win the race of the soul and life and family and relationships

02:21even if you understand the best of the human values like trust and love you will

02:39not be considered a hero in this world you will be considered a hero only when you

02:44have that gold coin or the gold medal with you because we are living in a

02:49materialistic world let's not forget that if if the human traits and the human

02:56qualities were really in the front then you will find Indians are real heroes

03:03because all over the world there are stereotypes like Chinese have a stereotype

03:08great negotiators Russian like you said cold people Germans great technicians

03:14engineers British people snobbish Americans flamboyant the stereotype of

03:19Indians all over the world is that Indians can be trusted and trust is the

03:26highest human trait despite that you will find even Indians don't believe they

03:31are heroes but I always believed that Indians are real heroes

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