Hero Hitler in Love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hero Hitler in Love |
| Country of production | India |
| original language | Punjabi |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sukhwant Dhadda |
| script | Babbu Maan |
| production | Babu Singh Maan (Maan Film) Darshan Singh Grewal |
| music | Babbu Maan, Sadhana Sargam |
| cut | Sanjay Verma |
| occupation | |
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Hero Hitler in Love ( Panjabi ਹੀਰੋ ਹਿਟਲਰ ਇਨ ਲਵ , translated: The hero Hitler in love ) is an Indian love comedy from 2011. The Panjabi film was directed by Sukhwant Dhadda . The story was written by the singer Babbu Maan , who wrote the screenplay, wrote the score and also played the leading role. The comedy film was released on November 18, 2011 in India. Maan Films was responsible for the distribution. On November 28th, Point Zero Entertainments released the soundtrack for the film. The last song in the film is also called "Hitler" (refrain: Hitler in love oh baby). The film contains numerous musical dance scenes typical of the genre.
action
The main character of the film, a young Indian nicknamed “Hitler”, is a respected man in his home village who always stands up for his fellow citizens. However, when he falls in love with the Pakistani Sahiban and wants to bring her to the village, the village turns against him. "Hitler", who always wants to solve problems in conversation, turns into a cold, brutal person, a kind of Adolf Hitler , when something frustrates him . After being cheated on in a car race, he tries to restore his honor and win back his beloved. In the end, "Hitler" even succeeds in improving the relationship between the two nations India and Pakistan.
The film launch was accompanied by a Facebook fan page and a Twitter account.
controversy
The title of the film was criticized worldwide. Maan explained that the contradicting name "Hero Hitler" was used ironically because Hitler stood for "villainy and hatred" in India. The use of the name is not about the historical figure, but about what people in India associate with the term. In English, the term “nazi”, in addition to its content, is used for people who fanatically insist on a kind of correctness (e.g. “grammar nazi”). In India, however, a very strict person is called Hitler.
Many people in South Asia also have little knowledge of the Holocaust and see Hitler as a great statesman at the time when India became independent from the weakened England. (An Indian member of parliament is called Adolf Lu Hitler Marak .) Hitler's use of the swastika , an ancient Hindu symbol of good fortune, and his reference to the Aryans have received benevolent recognition in parts of India.
The historian Christian Hartmann , under whose leadership the annotated version of Hitler's Mein Kampf was published, wants to ensure that such film titles are not released in Germany by providing information. Hitler has reached the mainstream as a trivialized subject.
Works with similar titles
In 2009, the Spaniard Hernán Migoya published a comic entitled “Hitler in Love” about Adolf Hitler as a young man as a dictator. Dumitru Acris also published a chamber piece about Hitler's last days in the bunker under the title “Hitler in Love”.
Web links
- Hero Hitler in Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A Popular Indian Actor Thought "Hero Hitler In Love" Was A Great Idea For A Movie , Culture Bore, October 22, 2011
- ↑ Hero Hitler In Love @hhilthemovie , Twitter
- ↑ Hero Hitler in Love , Facebook fan page for the film
- ↑ Delshad Irani, Ravi Balakrishnan: Use of Hitler in advertising: Tracing the tyrant's disturbing afterlife in Indian subcontinent , Economic Times, June 11, 2014
- ^ "Hero Hitler in Love" whirlwind about the bizarre Hitler romance from India , express.de, October 24, 2011
- ↑ Ladies & Gents, I Present To You: HERO HITLER IN LOVE ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , twitchfilm.com, November 10, 2011
- ↑ Bollywood Bizarre, "Hitler in love, oh baby!" , 20min.ch, October 24, 2011
- ↑ David Caprara: Hitler is a Superstar in South Asia , vice.com , January 8, 2016
- ↑ Hasnain Kazim: How Adolf Came to India , Der Spiegel, March 11, 2010
- ↑ David Shaftel: Hitler Has a Following in India , Bloomberg Business, December 6, 2012
- ↑ Hitler's Hot In India , SDPB, December 23, 2012
- ↑ Hitler's "Mein Kampf": Soon no longer banned? , Südkurier, January 14, 2013
- ↑ "Hitler wasn't a demon, he was an asshole," Main-Echo, January 21, 2014
- ↑ Gavriel D. Rosenfeld: Hi Hitler !: How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture , Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1107423978
- ↑ Daniel Erk: That much Hitler was rare. The trivialization of evil or why the man with the little beard can't be killed , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3453601789
- ↑ Hitler celebrated as a cult pop star , news.de, June 22, 2014
- ^ Googly eyes and in love - Hitler as a comic figure , Madrider Zeitung, May 19, 2009
- ↑ Hitler in Love , Bouman Studios
- ^ "Hitler in Love" one man show directed by Suren Shahverdyan received an award , PanArmenian, July 8, 2009
