Nationalism 2.0
A Film on India and Social Media

India boasts the second largest online user community globally. Its diaspora around the world adds to its expansive scope. Nationalism 2.0 dives into the worlds of social media users in India and the diaspora in the UK, and how they post, repost, joke, troll and abuse, for the sake of the “nation”. Traversing the rhetoric and reflections of five protagonists from the Hindu and Muslim communities and a cascading world of online posts, memes and media that fill up their felt time and rhythm, the film looks at a fractured national imagining and cantankerous social media cultures that undergird it. Is social media just a channel or doing more to how feelings and crafts of nationalism have erupted in the digital age?


Credits

Directed and Produced by Sahana Udupa

Editing

Priyanka Chhabra, Florian Geierstanger, Caspar Wallarabe

Research & Coordination

Miriam Homer, Max Kramer, Oeendrila Lahiri, Salma Siddique 

Camera

Pedro Castro Alves, Nitish Kanjilal, Adwait Parchure, Swaraj Sriwastav, Anubhav Verma

Music

Varun Pradeep, Giridhar Udupa

Sound

Aditya Virmani

Funding

Henry Luce Foundation and European Research Council

The film was shot during the Covid times, with interruptions and distance wrought by the pandemic.

©Sahana Udupa, 2023

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