2023
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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